Jonestown

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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  (A) MODIFICATIONS TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE 99/264 AND ; (B) UPGRADE OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOICATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21670

• 28 Jul 2021N/a

  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

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21466

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 the townland of Jonestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Jonestown.

Architectural heritage

• Jonestown House, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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).

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

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 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Jonestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Jonestown · Baile Mhic Sheoin

Area

642,806 m² (64.28 ha, 158.84 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacwilliam, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Ballymacwilliam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Kinnafad, Lenamarran, Monasteroris, Mountwilson, Roosk, Thornwell

Placenames

Jonestown 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.