Johnduffswood

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnduffswood, from 258 m² to 168,146 m² (16.81 ha, 41.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Johnduffswood 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.

• 10 Sept 2026N/a

  the temporary placement of a mobile home on site for the duration of the construction of dwelling house as granted under PL Ref: 25/60033 and temporarily connect to services as granted under same, all ancillary site works at services

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660276

• 17 Jul 2026Conditional

  alterations to the existing roof profile, comprising the conversion of the front (west-facing) hipped roof to a gable-ended roof, and the installation of 1 no. first-floor window to the new front gable. The works also include the removal of existing rooflights from the front (west-facing) roof slope, the installation of 2 no. first-floor bedroom windows to the side elevations (1 no. to the north gable and 1 no. to the south gable), together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660225

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  alterations to the existing roof profile, comprising the conversion of the front (west-facing) hipped roof to a gable-ended roof, and the installation of 1 no. first-floor window to the new front gable. The works also include the removal of existing rooflights from the front (west-facing) roof slope, the installation of 2 no. first-floor bedroom windows to the side elevations (1 no. to the north gable and 1 no. to the south gable), together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660216

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, bored well, tertiary treatment system & infiltration/treatment area, new entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560033

• 22 Jan 2024Conditional

  to construct (i) Slatted shed with crush area and loose area (ii) Manura area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460011

• 17 Jan 2024N/a

  to construct (i) Slatted shed with crush area and loose area (ii) Manura area and all associated site works at

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460008

• 15 Jan 2024N/a

  to construct (i) Slatted shed with crush area and loose area (ii) Manura area and all associated site works at

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460007

• 17 Sept 2019Conditional

  Retention Permission for a conservatory constructed to the South of the existing dwelling. Retention and Permission to complete also sought for the one-bedroom granny flat extension to the North and all associated site development works

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 19367

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 Johnduffswood.

Recorded monuments

• CW011-012 Earthwork
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as lozenge-shaped raised area (dims. c. 65m N-S x 40m E-W) and on 1908 ed. map as woodland. Now cleared. No visible surface traces.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnduffswood.

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 Johnduffswood, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2362 (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.

• Johnduffswood, Old Leighlin5 sales

Name

Johnduffswood · Coill Sheáin Duibh

Area

1,744,409 m² (174.44 ha, 431.05 acres)

Civil parish

Oldleighlin, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Oldleighlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 199 households in the Oldleighlin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnakeeran, Knockagarry, Oldleighlin, Parknakyle, Seskin Lower, Seskin Upper

Placenames

Johnduffswood 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.