Johnstown Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown Upper, from 818 m² to 294,591 m² (29.46 ha, 72.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Johnstown Upper 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  minor alterations to previously granted house type under planning permission file ref 21/1210 - all other aspects of the previously granted permission remain unchanged i.e. garage, a new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new vehicular entrance off public road, well and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560624

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211275

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  new dwelling, new garage, well , a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211210

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 Johnstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Johnstown Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Johnstown Upper, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Johnstown Upper.

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 Johnstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Johnstown Upper · Baile Sheáin Uachtarach

Area

594,329 m² (59.43 ha, 146.86 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolastingan, Johnstown Hill, Johnstown Lower, Slieveduff, Thomastown

Placenames

Johnstown Upper 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.