Johnstown
Townland in the civil parish of Rathmolyon, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 107.5 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 7,165 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown, from 1,315 m² to 295,182 m² (29.52 ha, 72.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 · 43 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 Jun 2025Conditional
The continuation of the operation of the application site as a waste processing and recycling facility, as granted planning permission under P.A. Reg. Ref. TA200203 and previously under P.A. Reg. Ref. TA900637.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560630
2 May 2025Conditional
retention permission for modifications to the existing dwelling house layout and modifications to the existing site layout from the original grant of planning permission planning reference number 002170
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2581
20 Mar 2024Conditional
the development will consist of modifications to elevations and plan layout for dwelling previously granted planning permission under planning reference no. 22/1473 together with revised domestic garage, revised location of domestic entrance, revised site boundaries and all associates site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 24122
18 Jun 2019Conditional
single storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, driveway, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA190793
15 Jun 2017Conditional
demolition of existing single storey flat roof extension to rear of dwelling and construct new single storey extension to side/rear of existing dwelling together with modificaitons to existing plans & elevations and all assoicated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, TA170682
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Johnstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Johnstown.
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).
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 Johnstown.
- 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 Johnstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Johnstown
- Area
- 1,074,650 m² (107.47 ha, 265.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmolyon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathmolyon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmolyon electoral division: 1,660 people in 534 households; 87% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardanew, Ballynaskea, Corballis, Cullentry, Fordstown, Tanderagee, Tobertynan
- 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.