# Johninstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghadoe, barony of Salt North, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile Sheoinín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 908,886 m² (90.89 ha, 224.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,681 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghadoe, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/taghadoe.md - Barony: Salt North - Electoral division: Straffan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,513 people lived in 758 households in the Straffan electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25464 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80666 - Centre: latitude 53.332372, longitude -6.640834 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johninstown, from 90 m² to 155,593 m² (15.56 ha, 38.45 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1090039: 155,593 m² (15.56 ha, 38.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090039.md - Parcel 1016947: 144,245 m² (14.42 ha, 35.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016947.md - Parcel 1016948: 133,818 m² (13.38 ha, 33.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016948.md - Parcel 2442045: 85,885 m² (8.59 ha, 21.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442045.md - Parcel 1055728: 70,373 m² (7.04 ha, 17.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055728.md - Parcel 1016851: 65,274 m² (6.53 ha, 16.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1016851.md - Parcel 2668295: 61,081 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2668295.md - Parcel 1028655: 49,354 m² (4.94 ha, 12.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1028655.md - Parcel 1079650: 29,979 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079650.md - Parcel 1082773: 19,720 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1082773.md - Parcel 1028221: 10,208 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1028221.md - Parcel 1022777: 6,035 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022777.md - Parcel 1031370: 5,776 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031370.md - Parcel 1022879: 5,765 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022879.md - Parcel 1048601: 5,717 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1048601.md - Parcel 1064968: 5,325 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1064968.md - Parcel 4937253: 4,154 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4937253.md - Parcel 3420386: 3,701 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3420386.md - Parcel 1084453: 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084453.md - Parcel 1038541: 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038541.md - Parcel 1026496: 2,935 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026496.md - Parcel 1081895: 2,827 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081895.md - Parcel 1033320: 2,761 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1033320.md - Parcel 1029744: 2,681 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029744.md - Parcel 3380993: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3380993.md - Parcel 1080834: 2,620 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080834.md - Parcel 1084093: 2,550 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084093.md - Parcel 1022318: 2,236 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1022318.md - Parcel 1055692: 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055692.md - Parcel 1042296: 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042296.md - Parcel 1034598: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034598.md - Parcel 1040626: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040626.md - Parcel 1023077: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023077.md - Parcel 1076040: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1076040.md - Parcel 1025050: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1025050.md - Parcel 3420368: 1,077 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3420368.md - Parcel 4905191: 1,043 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905191.md - Parcel 1029001: 975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029001.md - Parcel 4905192: 918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905192.md - Parcel 3252476: 662 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3252476.md - Parcel 3420409: 633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3420409.md - Parcel 1086091: 545 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086091.md - Parcel 1026044: 379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1026044.md - Parcel 1090964: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090964.md - Parcel 1090501: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090501.md - Parcel 1021821: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021821.md - Parcel 1013299: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013299.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Johninstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 1 Feb 2024, Kildare County Council 2460075: Refused. Permission, 3 homes. (A) Amendment of condition no.10 of planning file ref 88/385 to relocate the sterilisation of land to allow the erection of the proposed 3no. houses. (B) Erection of 3 no. single storey type houses to form a family cluster, (C) garage / fuel stores for domestic use to serve each house, (D) the installation of proprietary waste water treatment systems with polishing filter percolation areas to serve each house, (E) new recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460075/0 - 16 Feb 2023, Kildare County Council 23141: Refused. Permission, 5 homes. (a) erection of 5 no. single storey type houses to form a cluster. (b) garage/fuel stores for domestic use to serve each house. (c) the installation of proprietary waste water treatment systems with polishing filter percolation areas to serve each house. (d) new recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23141/0 - 30 Jul 2021, Kildare County Council 211107: Refused. Permission, 2 homes. (a) Constructing 2 No. detached single storey dwellings to form a family cluster. (b) Constructing 1 No. detached domestic garage and 1 No. detached domestic garage with home office space. (c) Relocating existing vehicular entrance serving the applicant's parents house and constructing a new vehicular entrance. (d) Installation of 2 No. waste water treatment systems and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/211107/0 - 3 Feb 2021, Kildare County Council 21114: Conditional. Permission. sought to amend the design of the approved development (Kildare County Council Planning Reg Ref 17/535) which comprises consent for the development of a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of the following: up to 74,172 m² of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames within a site area of 25.04 hectares; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 No. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment; 7 No. inverter/transformer units; underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works; a new entrance to the public road will be used for construction purposes, the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for operational purposes. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. Amendments proposed in this planning application are: Optimised Solar PV panel configuration with an increase in the solar panel area from the permitted up to 74,180 m² of solar panels to up to 150,000 m² of solar panels and increase in height of solar panel array from the permitted up to 2.8m to up to 3.2m. The panel area will be primarily located within the same areas of the site as previously permitted with the exception of a decreased buffer distance under the existing 220kV overhead electricity line from approximately 60m as permitted to approximately 36m; decreased buffer distance around the existing 3 No. 220kV pylons from approximately 60m as permitted to approximately 46m; Modifications and enlargement to the permitted on-site substation building and substation compound are also proposed. The substation building will increase in size from c. 80 m² as permitted to c. 150 m² with an increase in height from c. 5.8m as permitted to c. 6.0m and the substation compound will increase in size from c. 700 m² as permitted to c. 1081 m²; Omission of 2 No. inverter/transformer hardstanding areas and minor changes of position of hardstanding from the permitted solar development to allow for a total of 5 hardstanding areas which will provide the base for 12 No. inverter and transformer units housed in sound suppression containers. 2 No. CCTV cameras have also been omitted from the permitted development to allow a total of 5 No. CCTV cameras; Modifications, reduction and realignment of the internal access tracks resulting in the reduction of access tracks from c. 2,130m as permitted to c. 1,650m as now proposed;. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21114/0 - 2 Dec 2020, Kildare County Council 201459: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a single storey extension attached to both the north side of the existing property & the existing detached single storey garage. The proposed extension and detached garage will be converted to provide a family flat linked directly to the main dwelling,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201459/0 - 26 Oct 2017, Kildare County Council 171200: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new attached dormer side extension to match existing dwelling eaves height with zinc clad roof finish and “Velux” type roof windows, modification to internal layout, general refurbishment throughout and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/171200/0 - 11 May 2017, Kildare County Council 17535: Conditional. Permission. development of a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of the following: up to 74,172sqm of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames within a site area of 25.04 hectares; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 No. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment; 7 No. inverter/transformer units; underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works; a new entrance to the public road will be used for construction purposes, the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for operational purposes. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. This site is located within the townlands. Revised by significant further information consisting of; changes to layout which include the following: a new sit entrance to the public road and a new agricultural access; omission of the previously proposed two no. entrances to the proposed site; provision of a temporary construction car park; additional landscape measures; amendments to statutory redline boundary to accommodate the new site entrance to the public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17535/0 - 24 Apr 2017, Kildare County Council 17464: N/a. Permission. Solar photivataic panel array consisting of the following: up to 74. 172m2 of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames; a fenced electricity substation compound to include 1 no. electricity control building and hardstands for ancillary electrical equipment: 7 no inverter/transformer units: underground cable and ducts; internal access tracks and hardstanding areas; boundary security fence; CCTV and all associated site services and works; a new entrance to the public road will be used for construction purposes the existing access to the lands at the public road will be used for operational purposes. Planning Permission is sought for a period of 10 years.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17464/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Johninstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Johninstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johninstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Johninstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2799, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2799.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/johninstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/johninstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/johninstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Johninstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonagh-80322.md - Graiguesallagh: https://everytownland.com/kildare/graiguesallagh.md - Newtownmacabe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtownmacabe.md - Ovidstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ovidstown-80985.md - Roosk: https://everytownland.com/kildare/roosk.md - Smithstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/smithstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/johninstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/johninstown