Johnstown South

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown South, from 114 m² to 272,085 m² (27.21 ha, 67.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Johnstown South 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III for 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 129.8 hectares consisting of the following: c. 496,308 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L8084, L8087, L4009 and L4012 public roads; 1no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) location associated with the underground cable route; a total of 4 no. solar farm site entrances (1 no. from the L8084 public road, 1 no. from the L8091 public road, and 2 no. from the L4012 public road); access gates; 4 no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 48no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 12no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS Compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660958

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23699

• 16 Jun 2023N/a

  is sought to construct a storey and a half style dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23659

• 31 May 2023N/a

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23587

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD039-053 Enclosure
  Description

  OSi orthophoto (2005) shows cropmark of an irregular, and incomplete, curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 09 March 2012

• KD039-055 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 September 2019

• KD040-048 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on a GSI aerial photo (S 58, 59) as the cropmark of a circular bank on the grounds of Prumplestown House not shown on any edition OS 6-inch map. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-068 Enclosure
  Description

  OSi orthophoto (2005) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 09 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Prumplestown Mill, mill (water), 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay five-storey mill building, c.1850, with two-bay five-storey side elevations to north-west and to south-east. Reroofed, c.1940. Now disused. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1940. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Dressed cut-stone walls. Dressed stone quoins to corners. Segmental-headed openings. No sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. Timber casement windows with tongue-and-groove timber panelled shutters. Timber boarded door. Set back from road in own grounds about a courtyard. Part overgrown grounds to site. Mill wheel to site with remains of original mechanisms.Attached six-bay four-storey warehouse, c.1850, to north-east. Reroofed, c.1940. Now disused. Hipped roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1940. Iron ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Dressed cut-stone walls with traces of render over. Dressed stone quoins to corners. Shallow segmental-headed openings. No sills. Timber or cut-stone lintels. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. 2/2 timber sash windows (most now gone). Timber boarded door. Set back from road in own grounds about a courtyard. Part overgrown grounds to site.Attached five-bay two-storey rubble stone range, c.1850, to north-west forming L-shaped plan with segmental-headed integral carriageway to right. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. No sills. Cut-stone lintels. Yellow brick dressings. Timber boarded fittings. Segmental-headed integral carriageway. Cut-stone dressings. Yellow brick archivolt. No fittings.Detached three-bay two-storey mill keeper’s house, c.1850, to north. Now disused. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Iron vent to apex. Red brick chimney stacks. Iron rainwater goods on red brick eaves band. Dressed cut-stone walls. Red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Cut-stone sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. Timber casement windows to ground floor. 6/6 timber sash windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening. Tongue-and-groove timber panelled door.Detached two-bay single-storey corrugated-iron-clad outbuilding with attic, c.1940, to north. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with corrugated-iron. Iron ridge tiles. Corrugated-iron walls. Painted. Square-headed openings. No sills. Timber fixed-pane windows. Door fittings now gone.

• Prumplestown Mill, miller's house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former mill owner's house, c.1850, with two-bay two-storey side elevations to north-west and to south-east. Renovated, c.1980, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch added to centre. Now in private residential use. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Overhanging timber eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings (tripartite to ground floor flanking bays). Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows to ground floor. 6/6 timber sash windows to first floor. Elliptical-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Side lights. Decorative fanlight. Glazed porch added, c.1980, with fixed-pane timber windows and glazed timber panelled French doors. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.Attached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1850, to rear to north-east possibly originally mill worker's accommodation range. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Overhanging timber eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980.Gateway, c.1850, to north-west comprising pair of cut-granite piers with capping having wrought iron gates with lattice work panels.

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 10 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_2546 (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 Johnstown South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Johnstown South

Area

1,299,723 m² (129.97 ha, 321.17 acres)

Civil parish

Castledermot, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Johnstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Johnstown electoral division: 198 people in 65 households; 90% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crooket, Johnstown North, Knockroe, Newtownallen, Prumpelstown Lower, Prumpelstown Upper, Woodlands West

Placenames

Johnstown South 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.