Johnstown

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown, from 291 m² to 440,655 m² (44.07 ha, 108.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Johnstown 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.

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission for refurbishment, alterations and extension to existing vernacular dwelling house, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works *Further information received 17/06/2022*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211325

• 10 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19832

• 1 Aug 2019Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works. *Significant further Information submitted 30/07/20*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19621

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, comprising a mix of single and two storey structures, a single storey garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, site boundaries, hard and soft site landscaping works, and all associated works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19464

• 3 Aug 2018Refused

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18616

• 8 Aug 2017Conditional

  Permission for retention of an unauthorised development consisting of an existing single storey stable block comprising of 19 no. horse stable units & feed store, mechanical horse walker, dung stead and associated site works. Permission for development for an underground effluent storage tank, new roof over existing horse walker and associated site works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 06/04/2018 which provides for demolition of existing section of front boundary wall and front entrance piers and reconstruct same further back from road edge**

  Retention · Louth County Council, 17595

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA 004026

Recorded monuments

• LH019-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the broad summit of a WNW-ESE ridge. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 60m) defined by a single continuous fosse that has a gap (Wth c. 12m) at S is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is in the NE corner of a field that is depicted on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is also visible on Digital Globe (2011-13), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October 2021

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Johnstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Johnstown.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Johnstown · Baile Sheoin

Area

1,414,558 m² (141.46 ha, 349.54 acres)

Civil parish

Dunany, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Drumcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 487 households in the Drumcar electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corstown, Martinstown, Port, Salterstown, Wyanstown

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.