Johnsbrook
Townland in the civil parish of Girley, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 69.6 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 6,723 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnsbrook, from 496 m² to 152,994 m² (15.3 ha, 37.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 36 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jan 2025Conditional
the development comprises a new single-story extension to the front and side of the existing residential dwelling, formerly within the curtilage of a protected structure(LA RPS ID. No. 90766). It includes internal layout modifications to existing dwelling, the installation of four new roof windows. The development also includes a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560058
8 Sept 2023Refused
permission to construct, Farmyard development comprising of Horse stables, tack room and portal frame shed for the storage of hay & straw and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23868
11 Jan 2021Conditional
construction of single storey extensions to side & rear of existing dwelling, demolish existing porch & construct new porch to front elevation with revised elevational treatment and internal alterations to existing dwelling. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2127
29 Sept 2020Conditional
the development will consist of an application to retain (retention planning permission) a domestic garage with loft space, a sunroom constructed to the south west of the existing dwelling house, a utility room constructed to the rear of the house and alterations to the front elevation of the existing dwelling house granted under planning permission P88/187 together with all works ancillary to the overall development. The previous planning reference KAS51048 also refers
Retention · Meath County Council, KA201363
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Johnsbrook.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnsbrook.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Johnsbrook.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Johnsbrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Johnsbrook
- Area
- 696,237 m² (69.62 ha, 172.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Girley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Girley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Girley electoral division: 458 people in 155 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloncat, Drewstown Great, Drewstown Little
- Placenames
- Johnsbrook 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.