Newtownsaunders

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownsaunders, from 23 m² to 503,238 m² (50.32 ha, 124.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtownsaunders 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  development consisting of the infilling of a disused sand and gravel pit with imported clean soil and stone over an area of 1.67ha to levels in keeping with the surrounding ground levels

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24502

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  (a) partial demolition of existing Daycare Centre Wing (floor area to be demolished = 180.0sqm), upgrading, reconfiguration, and extensions to remainder of existing Daycare Centre Wing to be repurposed as a 6no. Bedroom Community Nursing Unit (floor area of ground floor extensions = 329.0sqm), construction of new Plant Room over at first floor level (floor area of first floor extension = 31.0sqm), and (b) construction of a new standalone single storey Daycare Centre (floor area = 371.0sqm) to the front of the existing Hospital Building, together with 13no. additional car parking spaces, and all associated site works. The Post Box [Ref. No. 27-31] and Union Work House [Ref. No. 27-32] at Baltinglass District Hospital are Protected Structures

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460498

• 31 Jul 2024N/a

  development consisting of a) upgrading, reconfiguration, and extensions to existing Daycare Centre to be repurposed as a 6no. Bedroom Community Nursing Unit (floor area of ground floor extensions = 148.06sqm), construction of new Plant Room over at first floor level (floor area of first floor extension = 31.0sqm), and b) construction of a new standalone single storey Daycare Centre (floor area = 371.2sqm) to the front of the existing Hospital Building, together with 13no. additional car parking spaces, and all associated site works. The Post Box [Ref. No. 27-31] and Union Work House [Ref. No. 27-32] at Baltinglass District Hospital are Protected Structures

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460463

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  a) a new standalone substation, client switch room and external store building; b) a new standalone plant room and external plant area; c) window, curtain wall, door, cladding and roof upgrade works; d) roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels, and all associated site development works. The post box (ref no. 27-31) and union work house (ref no. 27-32) at Baltinglass District Hospital are protected structures within the boundary of the development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460388

• 6 May 2024N/a

  a) a new standalone substation, client switch room and external store building; b) a new standalone plant room and external plant area; c) window, curtain wall, door, cladding and roof upgrade works; d) roof mounted solar photovoltaic panels, and all associated site development works. The post box (ref no. 27-31) and union work house (ref no. 27-32) at Baltinglass District Hospital are protected structures within the boundary of the development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460255

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  new dwelling, new garage, new entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, connection to public mains water and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221157

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtownsaunders.

Architectural heritage

• Slaney Park House, gate lodge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic dormers gate lodge to Slaney Park House, built c.1860. The walls are constructed in squared rock-face granite with moulded drip stones, however the extension and the dormers are rendered. The overhanging gable-ended pitched roof is slated and has a brick chimneystack and decorative bargeboards. The gabled dormers have slated pitched roofs and decorative dormers also. The entrance sits within a small open porch with single-pitched roof and consists of a timber tongue and groove door. The window openings are flat-headed and filled with replacement top-hung timber frames (made to resemble two over two sash frames). Cast-iron rainwater goods. The gate lodge is situated at the head of the northern drive to Slaney Park house, with a relatively plain gate screen with square pyramidal-capped piers and iron carriage gate.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_2769 (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.

No address of the register names Newtownsaunders with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Newtownsaunders · Baile Nua Saunders

Area

1,449,252 m² (144.93 ha, 358.12 acres)

Civil parish

Baltinglass, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Baltinglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Baltinglass electoral division: 3,029 people in 1,075 households; 64% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogh Lower, Cloghcastle, Deerpark, Kilmurry Lower, Lathaleere, Slaney Park, Woodfield

Placenames

Newtownsaunders 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.