Johnstown
Johnstown is a townland in the civil parish of Rathmolyon, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath.
Parcel 5676158
- Area
- 2,878 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 288 m².
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Johnstown
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 10 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
- 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
- 7
- 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 as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), 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
30 Sept 2026N/a
the development will consist of modifications to elevations, revised internal plan layout, together with revised site boundaries from that previously granted planning permission under planning reference no. 22/1474
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2661215
17 Sept 2026N/a
construction of a dry mix concrete batching plant: 3 no. aggregate bins/hoppers (H: 4m x L: 15m total); 1 no. cement silo (H: 9.1m); 1 no. loading gantry (H: 10.6m x W: 3.3m x L: 3.3m); 1 no. control portacabin (3m x 3m), associated site drainage infrastructure; all associated site works and ancillary development. The development will also consist of a storage area for aggregates and a closed-loop concrete washout unit
Permission · Meath County Council, 2661160
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
- At the centre of the townland of Johnstown, about 1 in 10 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.
- 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 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
- 1,660 people lived in 534 households in the Rathmolyon electoral division. 87% of households owned 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.