Johnstown
Townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Sheáin
- Area
- 26.8 ha
- 66 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 7,032 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.2
- HI - Heavy Industry
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown, from 202 m² to 95,290 m² (9.53 ha, 23.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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
- C2.2HI - Heavy Industry (General industry)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Aug 2026Ai not significant
The proposed development will comprise the following: Constructio
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0163E
7 Mar 2025Grant permission
The replacement of approx. 251 m of existing 2.4 m high chainlink peri
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0086E
14 Jan 2025Invalid application
Permission for works to an existing Above Ground Natural Gas Installat
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0009E
10 Dec 2024Invalid application
The replacement of approx. 251 m of existing 2.4 m high chainlink peri
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0513E
2 Oct 2024Grant permission
1) A Battery Energy Storage System facility to include up to 85 no. co
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0400E
24 Apr 2024Grant permission & grant retention
Retention permission is sought for:
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0178E
18 Apr 2024Invalid application
Retention permission is sought for:
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0168E
2 Jan 2024Grant permission
The development will consist of the construction of a
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0234
21 Dec 2022Grant permission
The development is within a total site area of up to c. 1 ha. to inclu
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW22A/0213
24 Feb 2022Grant permission
Demolition of 2 no. existing residential dwellings and ancillary
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW21A/0151
17 Nov 2021Refuse permission
Planning permission for the construction of as 24-hour fuel card refue
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW21A/0219
11 Aug 2021Grant permission
The development will consist of the installation of electrical infrast
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW21A/0144
18 Mar 2021Grant permission
The development will consist of 3 no. buildings for industrial/warehou
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW20A/0211
27 Apr 2018Grant permission
Development will consist of the construction of two single storey unit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0769
21 Mar 2018Grant permission
Amendments to previously approved application (ref FW14A/0162) which c
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW18A/0038
6 Feb 2017Grant permission
The development will comprise an increase in the rate of imporation of
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW17A/0012
12 Aug 2016Grant permission
The development will comprise an increase in the rate of imporation of
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW16A/0120
13 Apr 2015Grant permission
Permission for (i) Demolition of existing 2 no 2 storey semi detached
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW14A/0162
23 Dec 2013Grant permission & grant retention
Planning Permission and Retention Permission for development at this s
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, FW13A/0143
1 Mar 2013Grant permission
Extension to and modifications of the Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre previ
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW13A/0018
26 Nov 2012Grant permission
Permission / permission for continuation of use for development at Hun
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW12A/0022
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 Johnstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU014-138 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 45m) with possible outer enclosing ditches visible on Apple Maps orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages. See attached orthoimage taken from Apple Maps and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 21 December 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnstown.
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 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_3146 (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 Johnstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Johnstown · Baile Sheáin
- Area
- 268,431 m² (26.84 ha, 66.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleknock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Electoral division
- The Ward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- The Ward electoral division: 13,289 people in 3,674 households; 63% of households own their home; 88% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coldwinters, Huntstown, Kilshane, Newtown
- Placenames
- Johnstown 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.