# Johnstown, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunany, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Sheoin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,414,558 m² (141.46 ha, 349.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,030 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunany, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/dunany.md - Barony: Ferrard - Electoral division: Drumcar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33579 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140334 - Centre: latitude 53.85968, longitude -6.288472 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown, from 291 m² to 440,655 m² (44.07 ha, 108.89 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1094608: 440,655 m² (44.07 ha, 108.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094608.md - Parcel 1091649: 390,558 m² (39.06 ha, 96.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091649.md - Parcel 5354815: 114,448 m² (11.44 ha, 28.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354815.md - Parcel 3440901: 87,703 m² (8.77 ha, 21.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3440901.md - Parcel 1091650: 5,977 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091650.md - Parcel 5593678: 5,571 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5593678.md - Parcel 1096049: 4,157 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096049.md - Parcel 4405762: 3,141 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4405762.md - Parcel 5548157: 3,073 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5548157.md - Parcel 3440793: 3,036 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3440793.md - Parcel 5693593: 3,024 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5693593.md - Parcel 1096939: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096939.md - Parcel 1132364: 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132364.md - Parcel 1100624: 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1100624.md - Parcel 2684896: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2684896.md - Parcel 1099471: 1,807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099471.md - Parcel 1130366: 1,649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1130366.md - Parcel 1115850: 1,325 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1115850.md - Parcel 1131092: 1,117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131092.md - Parcel 2761705: 291 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2761705.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 29 Oct 2021, Louth County Council 211325: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/211325/0 - 10 Oct 2019, Louth County Council 19832: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19832/0 - 1 Aug 2019, Louth County Council 19621: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19621/0 - 14 Jun 2019, Louth County Council 19464: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19464/0 - 3 Aug 2018, Louth County Council 18616: Refused. Permission, 1 home. The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18616/0 - 8 Aug 2017, Louth County Council 17595: Conditional. Retention. 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**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/17595/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA, site code 004026, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004026 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH019-034: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH019-034----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnstown. ## 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 Johnstown, 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 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 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/louth/johnstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/johnstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/johnstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/corstown-140197.md - Martinstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/martinstown.md - Port: https://everytownland.com/louth/port.md - Salterstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/salterstown.md - Wyanstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/wyanstown.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/louth/johnstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/johnstown