Johnstown West
Johnstown West is a townland in the civil parish of Dunmahon, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Sheáin Thiar.
Parcel 2330484
- Area
- 89,821 m² (8.98 ha, 22.2 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 134 m².
- 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
- Johnstown West
Planning applications on this parcel
24 Oct 2005Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse with attached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7773
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- CO027-074 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO027-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope, c. 90m to NNE of levelled circular enclosure (CO027-074---). Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.6m) partially planted with deciduous trees. Intervening fosse U-shaped in profile. Outer bank (H 1.6m) skirted by shallow fosse (D 0.3m) on S side. Interior inaccessible due to overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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.
- 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.
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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
- 187.6 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 39,600 m² (3.96 ha, 9.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown West, from 76 m² to 266,862 m² (26.69 ha, 65.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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
No zone of a development plan covers Johnstown West in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction livestock house, slatted tank, silage slab with concrete apron and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11908
25 Oct 2006Conditional
Roofing of existing holding yard, construction of 2 no. feeding passages and straw bedded house and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11732
24 Oct 2005Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse with attached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7773
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 West.
Recorded monuments
- CO027-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Roughly circular area (41m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2m); external fosse (max. D 1m). Inner face of bank low N->ESE with external face 2.2m high; some stone facing noted on outer face of bank to ENE. Fosse survives as slight slope down to base of bank W->E; deeper elsewhere. Interior raised; clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnstown West.
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 Johnstown West, 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 the townland of Johnstown West.
- 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 Johnstown West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Johnstown West · Baile Sheáin Thiar
- Area
- 1,875,625 m² (187.56 ha, 463.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunmahon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Killathy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 422 people lived in 144 households in the Killathy electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhooly South, Commons, Glanworth, Inchinapallas, Johnstown East, Killathy, Moneen, Templenoe
- Placenames
- Johnstown West 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.