# Johnstown Hill, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inch, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnoc Bhaile Sheáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 878,514 m² (87.85 ha, 217.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,057 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Inch, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/inch.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55194 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250789 - Centre: latitude 52.781624, longitude -6.23865 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown Hill, from 287 m² to 240,747 m² (24.07 ha, 59.49 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1286583: 240,747 m² (24.07 ha, 59.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286583.md - Parcel 1278802: 163,469 m² (16.35 ha, 40.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278802.md - Parcel 1270262: 128,545 m² (12.85 ha, 31.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270262.md - Parcel 2656714: 86,334 m² (8.63 ha, 21.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656714.md - Parcel 4946473: 66,582 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4946473.md - Parcel 2656716: 44,877 m² (4.49 ha, 11.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656716.md - Parcel 1297879: 44,675 m² (4.47 ha, 11.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297879.md - Parcel 1288998: 20,936 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288998.md - Parcel 1270519: 17,653 m² (1.77 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270519.md - Parcel 1286584: 14,566 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286584.md - Parcel 1270520: 11,509 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270520.md - Parcel 1289074: 10,057 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289074.md - Parcel 1296444: 4,810 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296444.md - Parcel 4946471: 3,614 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4946471.md - Parcel 3050155: 3,220 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3050155.md - Parcel 1286585: 2,659 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286585.md - Parcel 2708148: 2,648 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2708148.md - Parcel 2733879: 2,517 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733879.md - Parcel 1271383: 2,382 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271383.md - Parcel 4928335: 1,974 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928335.md - Parcel 1294811: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294811.md - Parcel 5881717: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5881717.md - Parcel 2656715: 287 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656715.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Johnstown Hill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Jul 2021, Wicklow County Council 21864: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21864/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Johnstown Hill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI045-001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI045-001----. Situated on a NE-facing slope. A small unmarked spring with no associated features. The name probably means 'well of the foreigner' or 'Englishman' (Price 1967, 488). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnstown Hill. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Johnstown Hill, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Johnstown Hill. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-hill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-hill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-hill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Johnstown Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballykilty Upper (Co. Wexford): https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballykilty-upper.md - Johnstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-lower.md - Johnstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-upper.md - Shirsheen (Co. Wexford): https://everytownland.com/wexford/shirsheen.md - Slieveduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/slieveduff.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-hill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/johnstown-hill