Johninstown

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johninstown, from 90 m² to 155,593 m² (15.56 ha, 38.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Johninstown 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.

• 1 Feb 2024Refused

  (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

  Permission, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 2460075

• 16 Feb 2023Refused

  (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

  Permission, 5 homes · Kildare County Council, 23141

• 30 Jul 2021Refused

  (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

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 211107

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  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;

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21114

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  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,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201459

• 26 Oct 2017Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171200

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  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

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17535

• 24 Apr 2017N/a

  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.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17464

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Johninstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Johninstown.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johninstown.

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 20 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_2799 (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 Johninstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Johninstown · Baile Sheoinín

Area

908,886 m² (90.89 ha, 224.59 acres)

Civil parish

Taghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Salt North

Electoral division

Straffan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Straffan electoral division: 2,513 people in 758 households; 83% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonagh, Graiguesallagh, Newtownmacabe, Ovidstown, Roosk, Smithstown

Placenames

Johninstown 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.