Newbawn
Newbawn is a townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Bán Nua.
- Area
- 170.3 ha
- 421 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 4,063 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newbawn, from 104 m² to 494,404 m² (49.44 ha, 122.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Newbawn 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
9 Dec 2025Conditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 11.24 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use, with the retention and use of existing site access road and wheel wash, all constructed by reference to PRR 18/74 together with temporary haul road and other ancillary site works including portable office/chemical toilet. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560996
20 Nov 2025N/a
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 11.24 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use, together with the retention and use of existing site access road and wheel wash, all constructed by reference to PRR 18/74 together with temporary haul road and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560949
15 Oct 2024Conditional
existing extension to side & rear of existing dwelling and Permission for new single storey rear extension, alterations to fenestration, addition of rooflight to front elevation & upgrade of waste water treatment system
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460632
24 Oct 2023Unconditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and ancillary works granted under PRR No. 18/74
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 23801
11 Oct 2023Conditional
the construction of a bungalow with garage, new entrance off existing lane, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360334
22 Aug 2022N/a
application to ABP for substitute consent for development that consists of a sand/gravel extraction pit including extraction areas, processing areas, stockpiling areas & ancillary works (circa 23.7 hectares). The development also includes a sand/gravel washing/screening plant & buildings comprising workshop/machinery shed, tools storage container, pump - house, 2 no. portable office buildings, 1 no. portable office/canteen/WC, Sand processing plant electrical control room, 3 no. storage containers, sand processing plant control cabin, bunded oil storage tanks, diesel generator container & electrical sub station (all totalling circa 376sqm) The application is accompanied by a remedial EIAR and remedial NIS
Permission · Wicklow County Council, SU2201
8 Sept 2021Refused
deposition of soil and stone over an area of c. 1.56 ha for the purposes of land improvement with an agricultural end use
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211107
3 Jun 2021Conditional
the reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 4.41 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity, which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21672
6 May 2021Conditional
2 no. single storey extensions to rear and side of existing house with ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21519
15 Nov 2018Conditional
extension to existing house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181277
31 Jan 2018Conditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 14.38 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1874
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newbawn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newbawn.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newbawn.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Newbawn, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newbawn.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Newbawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Newbawn · An Bán Nua
- Area
- 1,703,298 m² (170.33 ha, 420.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 481 people lived in 181 households in the Dunganstown West electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleese Upper, Ballinabarny North, Ballindoyle, Bolagh Lower, Cunniamstown Big, Keeloges, Mountlusk, Rockstown Upper, Tullylusk
- Placenames
- Newbawn 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.