Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Drumkay, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 43.1 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,517 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 180 m² to 192,116 m² (19.21 ha, 47.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
10 May 2023Conditional
for permission for a new dwelling, garage, upgrading existing laneway and entrance on to existing laneway and junction between existing lane and public road, new pullin areas on existing lane, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360040
15 Sept 2022N/a
new dwelling, garage, upgrading existing entrance on to existing laneway and junction between existing lane and public road, new pullin areas on existing lane, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221004
18 Oct 2021Conditional
single storey extension and alterations to existing house along with the retention for the as constructed dwelling house, along with a proposed effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211251
10 May 2021Conditional
single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, upgrade of the existing site entrance and access driveway, on-site sewage treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21535
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 Newtown.
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_3403 (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. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown
- Area
- 431,473 m² (43.15 ha, 106.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumkay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wicklow Rural electoral division: 10,247 people in 3,334 households; 73% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinteskin, Ballyhara, Bonabrocka, Raheenmore, Toberaviller
- 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.