Joanstown
Joanstown is a townland in the civil parish of Mothel, barony of Upperthird, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Baile Shiobháin.
Parcel 1570541
- Area
- 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Joanstown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 205.4 ha
- 507 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 4,509 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Joanstown, from 23 m² to 183,482 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 10 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 May 2025Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling, garage/store, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560339
13 May 2025N/a
construct a single storey dwelling, garage/store, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560315
28 Jun 2024Refused
Extension of Duration of Planning file 19/342 for construction of a new one-storey family dwelling together with new entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment plant & percolation area, boundary treatment, new well and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Waterford City and County Council, 24140
31 Aug 2023Conditional
to renovate existing dwelling, alter the roof of the building, construct a dormer style extension incorporating a carport to the north of existing dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, a new splayed entrance to improve the sightlines and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23255
18 Jul 2022Conditional
Section 254 Licence for the erection of overground electronic communications infrastructure and any associated physical infrastructure along public roads including: 1. The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2. The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables. Poles do not exceed 12 metres in height or approximately 0.3 metres in diameter and are manufactured to EN14229: 2010 and further described in Schedule Two. MRL T1 Application reference number: 2022WD0483
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22647
27 Jun 2022Conditional
to construct a storey and a half dormer dwelling with detached domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment system, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22570
14 Jul 2021Conditional
demolish existing two storey dwelling and outbuildings, to decommission existing septic tank, to construct a replacement dwelling which is to be a two-storey dwelling, garage/gym with home office over, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21676
17 Jun 2021Conditional
PERMISSION for the development of a new bungalow, garage, driveway entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area, well, landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21568
23 Dec 2019Refused
OUTLINE permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, effluent treatment system, reconfiguration of existing adjacent dwelling vehicular entrance to be used as a shared vehicle entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19997
13 Dec 2019Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling, garage/store, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19961
21 May 2019Conditional
construction of a new one-storey family dwelling together with new entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment plant & percolation area, boundary treatment, new well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19342
16 Mar 2018Conditional
the construction of a new agricultural building (circa 1050m2) containing cubicles, robotic milking system, an underground slatted tank, and associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18178
15 Jan 2018Conditional
to construct a single storey extension to side of existing cottage
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 1821
1 Dec 2017Conditional
to construct a single story dwelling, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17834
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 Joanstown.
Recorded monuments
- WA003-025001 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a subrectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 44m NE-SW; c. 37m NW-SE) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a broad plateau. Slightly raised, grass-covered subcircular area (dims. 32m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2-0.4m). Enclosure site (WA003-025002-) is attached immediately to the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 27 July 2010
- WA003-025002 Enclosure
Description
Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a broad plateau, it is not visible at ground level. An enclosure (WA003-025001-), which appears to curtail this monument, is immediately to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 18 September 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Joanstown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Joanstown, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Joanstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Joanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Joanstown · Baile Shiobháin
- Area
- 2,053,712 m² (205.37 ha, 507.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mothel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperthird
- Electoral division
- Carrickbeg Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 463 people lived in 169 households in the Carrickbeg Rural electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknock, Carrickbeg, Coolroe, Curraghduff, Garravoone, Sheskin
- Placenames
- Joanstown 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.