# Jonestown, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacwilliam, barony of Warrenstown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Mhic Sheoin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 642,806 m² (64.28 ha, 158.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,235 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacwilliam, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballymacwilliam.md - Barony: Warrenstown - Electoral division: Ballymacwilliam, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 652 people lived in 214 households in the Ballymacwilliam electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41611 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180765 - Centre: latitude 53.353928, longitude -7.09058 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jonestown, from 2,931 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5713517: 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5713517.md - Parcel 5953550: 3,235 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5953550.md - Parcel 5693672: 2,931 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5693672.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Jonestown 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 Oct 2021, Offaly County Council 21670: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (A) MODIFICATIONS TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE 99/264 AND ; (B) UPGRADE OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOICATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21670/0 - 28 Jul 2021, Offaly County Council 21466: N/a. Retention. MODIFICATIONS TO A PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING A BUNGALOW, GARAGE, AND SEPTIC TANK (PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE 99/264). THE MODIFICATIONS COMPRISE THE OMISSION OF THE VEHICLE GARAGE AND THE INCLUSION OF AN ADDITIONAL BEDROOM TOGETHER WITH OTHER INTERNAL LAYOUT CHANGES AND THE INSTALLATION OF AN UPGRADED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21466/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Jonestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Jonestown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Jonestown House, country house, 1770–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14911001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14911001. Detached five-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1790, with castellated parapet and towers to front elevation, entrance porch, gabled return and extensions. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks. Hipped and flat roofs to extensions. Roughcast rendered walls with squared limestone castellated towers and castellated parapet to front elevation. Plaque and crest over entrance bay. Square-headed window openings with timber sash window and tooled limestone sills. Some uPVC windows to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with tooled limestone Gibbsian surround with glazed fanlight and timber and glazed double doors. Door set within porch supported by limestone Doric columns. Derelict stone outbuildings and modern farm buildings to north-east of house. Site accessed through wrought-iron gates supported by decorative cast-iron piers flanked by red brick piers with crest carved onto limestone cap. - Post box, 1910–1920, Regional interest, registry number 14911002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14911002. Cast-iron post box, c.1915, set within red brick gate pier to Jonestown House. GR royal cipher with crown symbol above letter aperture. Maker’s mark ‘W.T. Allen & Co. London’ to base. ## 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 Jonestown, about 1 in 10 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 low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2259, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2259.zip (ZIP). - 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/offaly/jonestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/jonestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/jonestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Jonestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Kinnafad: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kinnafad.md - Lenamarran: https://everytownland.com/offaly/lenamarran.md - Monasteroris: https://everytownland.com/offaly/monasteroris.md - Mountwilson: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mountwilson.md - Roosk: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roosk.md - Thornwell: https://everytownland.com/offaly/thornwell.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/offaly/jonestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/jonestown