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Recorded forms
An Baile Nua· Irish · main form · validated name
Newtown· English · main form
Place & story
An overshot mill at Knockanfoil More
Newtown Mill stands at the roadside in Knockanfoil More. The architectural inventory dates the three-storey building to about 1840 and records an overshot wheel beside its east gable. Water reached the wheel through a metal chute at the end of the headrace. Small openings, thick whitewashed rubble walls and a half-hipped slate roof give the mill its compact vertical form. The inventory’s 2004 survey found the wheel still in place, preserving machinery that helps explain the building’s working arrangement.[2]
A parish church rebuilt after fire
A survey of Youghalarra’s burial places, compiled by Robert Bonfield in March 1983, records that Father Dan Ryan erected Newtown’s parish church in 1832 after an earlier building burned accidentally. Bonfield also identified a font on the south wall that appeared to have come from the old church at Youghalarra. That proposed connection remains an attribution, rather than a documented transfer. The memorials he recorded were largely dedicated to parish clergy, making the building a record of local ministry as well as worship.[3]
The older burial ground outside the village
Bonfield distinguished the church grounds in Newtown from the older Youghalarra graveyard, approximately a mile away on elevated ground. There he recorded a ruined church, an earliest identified gravestone dated 1700 and examples of slate memorial carving using material from local quarries. The separation matters when exploring parish history: the village church and the older burial ground preserve different buildings and commemorative traditions. The graveyard’s carved stones also connect local remembrance with the surrounding district’s stone-working skills.[3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
View population figures
Newtown — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Newtown, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
191people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Newtown, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Newtown, North Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
309people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Holy Spirit Church, Youghalarra near Newtown illustration: based on a Holy Spirit Church (1), Youghalarra near Newtown by P L Chadwick. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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