Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Monart, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 171.7 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 3,234 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 69 m² to 286,826 m² (28.68 ha, 70.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Newtown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for development consisting of: 1. demolition of existing monopitch ro
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250725
19 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a Klargester treatment unit as installed within
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220978
6 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the increasein floor area and minor alterations to
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211266
11 Dec 2017Refused
FIVE YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN UP TO 50MW SOLAR PV FARM
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171630
7 Dec 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR FIVE YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN UP TO 50MW SOLAR P
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171608
6 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH CA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171315
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killoughrum Forest 000765
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2850 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 1,717,209 m² (171.72 ha, 424.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Killoughrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killoughrum electoral division: 848 people in 255 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrannis, Killoughrum, Kiltrea, Monart East, Monart West
- Placenames
- Newtown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.