Johnstown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown, from 852 m² to 471,528 m² (47.15 ha, 116.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Johnstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Johnstown 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299

Recorded monuments

• WM008-030 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground. A complex series of rectilinear earthworks marks the site of the medieval castle of Johnstown depicted on the 1659 Down Survey map of Delvin barony (NLI MS 723-4). A tower house type fortification belonging to James Nugent, an Irish papist is depicted on the 1659 Down Survey map of Kilcumny parish (ibid.). The terrier of this parish map recorded that 'There is a Castle in repaire in Johnstowne' (ibid.). The earthworks belonging to the medieval castle are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011 and may represent ancillary structures belonging to the castle such as a bawn and field system, or possibly settlement earthworks. Present remains consist of a rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 40m N-S x 25m E-W) enclosed by a wide low earthen bank and deep fosse. This is contained within a larger sub-rectangular enclosure (approx. diam. 91m N-S; 95m E-W) with a substantial wide earthen bank and fosse at N & S. The interior of this larger enclosure is divided by a series of radial banks forming smaller rectangular enclosures. The NE side of the site is indistinct. Cultivation ridges cross the site from E-W. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2017

• WM008-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in grassland with Lough Adeel 890m to E. Ringfort (WM008-059----) 100m to E. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 50m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by two poorly preserved earthen banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank has been levelled from W-N & the fosse has been almost completely infilled. The outer bank has been levelled from NE-SE-SW. The monument has been disturbed by several large quarry holes. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 April 2017

• WM008-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the W edge of a ridge running roughly NNW-SSE overlooking stream 70m to E which flows into Lough Adeel located 280m to SE. Ringfort (WM008-037----) 500m to E, castle earthworks (WM008-030---) 770m to WSW. Present remains consist of a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 26m) enclosed by an earthen bank with possible rectangular shaped annexe or small field to E which is defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. Possible traces of a second enclosure immediately to N although this is uncertain as the remains are quite faint and may be post-1700 in date relating to land improvement works. Earthworks 60m to WNW consisting of a wide L-shaped fosse (approx. dims. 75m N-S x 50m E-W) creating a possible rectangular paddock or field bisected by a drainage ditch shown on the OS 25-inch map running E-W is related to land reclamation works of post 1700 date. The site is located in a reclaimed field which was once wetland associated with the NW shoreline of Lough Adeel. The 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map shows several linear drainage ditches in this field in the area to the NW of the possible ringfort. The linear drainage ditch running roughly N-S which forms the W side of a rectangular-shaped field to WNW of ringfort is one of the drainage ditches depicted on the OS 25-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Emmet Byrnes Date of upload: 31 December 2019

• WM008-119 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 22m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2021. Faint outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthophoto Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 July 2022

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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

Name

Johnstown

Area

1,722,780 m² (172.28 ha, 425.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcumny, and its townlands

Barony

Delvin

Electoral division

Kilcumny, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagall, Bananstown, Collinstown, Cooleighter, Cummerstown, Drumcree

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. 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.