Johnstown Demesne
Townland in the civil parish of Drum, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 303.7 ha
- 750 acres
- Land parcels
- 183
- registered freehold, median 4,144 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
183 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown Demesne, from 32 m² to 244,093 m² (24.41 ha, 60.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Johnstown Demesne 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
11 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for alterations to the existing dwelling, including external insulation, new façade, new window/door openings, new patio area and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660412
8 May 2026N/a
Permission for development which will consist of the following: • Construction of a new building to facilitate new dressing rooms, gymnasium, ancillary offices and a spectator area; • The relocation of an existing pitch floodlight; • Along with all ancillary site work at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660216
24 Apr 2026N/a
The development will consist of the following: • Construction of a new building to facilitate new dressing rooms, gymnasium, ancillary offices and a spectator area, • The relocation of an existing pitch floodlight, • Along with all ancillary site work at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660188
18 Oct 2024Conditional
Planning permission for development consisting of the following: 1. To develop a 2nd Playing Pitch with a 1.4m high metal fence surrounding and 1 No. Set of 13.5m High Ball Stops, 2. To erect 4 No. 24m high poles to provide flood lighting of 350 Lux Standard, 3. To erect a 45m seated stand, 4. To construct a 2m wide walkway around the boundaries of the grounds, 950m length with Solar Lighting and 5. A Sensory Garden at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460495
24 Sept 2024N/a
Permission for development consisting of the following: 1. To develop a 2nd Playing Pitch with a 1.4m high metal fence surrounding, and 1 No Set of 13m High Ball Stops 2. To erect 4 No 24m high poles to provide flood lighting of 350 Lux Standard 3. To erect a 45m seated stand 4. To construct a 2m wide walkway around the boundaries of the grounds, 950m length with Solar Lighting 5. A Sensory Garden at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460454
13 Dec 2023N/a
Permission for the following: 1. To develop a 2nd playing pitch with a 1.4m high metal fence surrounding, and 2 No set of 13m High Ball Stops; 2. To erect 4 No 21.43m high poles to provide flood lighting of 350 Lux standard; 3. To erect 45m seated stand; 4. To construct a 2m wide walkway around the boundaries of the grounds, 950m length with solar lighting; 5. A sensory garden at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360263
4 Dec 2023N/a
Permission to: 1. To develop a 2nd playing pitch with a 1.4m high metal fence surrounding, and 2 No Set of 13m High Ball Stops; 2. To erect 4 No 21.43m high poles to provide flood lighting of 350 Lux standard; 3. To erect 45m seated stand; 4. To construct a 2m wide walkway around the boundaries of the grounds, 950m length with solar lighting and 5. A sensory garden at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360241
18 Oct 2023N/a
Permission 1. To develop a 2nd Playing Pitch with a 1.4m high metal fence surrounding, and 1 No. set of 13m High Ball Stops. 2. To erect 4 No. 24m high poles to provide flood lighting of 350 Lux Standard. 3. To erect a 45m seated stand. 4. To construct a 2m wide walkway around the boundaries of the grounds, 950m length with solar lighting. 5. A Sensory Garden at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23386
5 Sept 2023N/a
1. to develop a 2nd playing pitch with a 1.4m high metal fence surrounding. 2. To erect 4 no 26m high poles to provide flood lighting of 450 Lux standard. 3. To erect a 45m seated stand. 4. To construct a 2m wide walkway around the boundaries of the grounds, 950m length with solar lighting. 5. A Sensory Garden all works to be carried out within club grounds at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23358
1 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission to construct single storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent waste water treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22588
5 Oct 2022Refused
Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22537
26 Jul 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a four bedroom dwelling and garage, the application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works and drainage at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22394
21 Sept 2018Conditional
Planning permission to construct single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18481
7 Mar 2018Conditional
development consisting of the change of use of part of house to commercial which will incorporate an existing W/C & study and an extension to existing dwelling to accommodate an after school childcare room and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1899
4 Oct 2017Conditional
Retention of single storey domestic garage to rear of the existing dwelling at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17408
16 May 2017N/a
the development will consist of the change of use of part of house to commercial which will incorporate an existing W/C & study and an extension to existing dwelling to accommodate an after school childcare room and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17219
28 Apr 2017N/a
for development which will consist of an extension to existing dwelling to accommodate an after school childcare room, which will incorporate an existing W/C and study located in the existing dwelling and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17181
13 Apr 2017Conditional
the construction of additional pre-school building and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17162
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 Demesne.
Recorded monuments
- RO055-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosure (diam. c. 50m), and situated on a level landscape. Described as a subcircular area (dims 52m E-W; 47m N-S) defined by a defaced earth and stone bank (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO055-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m), and situated at the S end of a low N-S ridge. Overgrown D-shaped area (dims. C. 20m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-1.2m) SSE-WNW, but the remainder is removed by a NW-SE quarry-face. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnstown Demesne.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Johnstown Demesne.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Johnstown Demesne
- Area
- 3,037,076 m² (303.71 ha, 750.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Drumlosh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumlosh electoral division: 358 people in 121 households; 90% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonark, Cornafulla, Derrylahan, Drumlosh
- Placenames
- Johnstown Demesne 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.