# Johnstown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inch, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Sheáin Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 594,329 m² (59.43 ha, 146.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,903 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications 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/55196 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250791 - Centre: latitude 52.785609, longitude -6.231941 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Johnstown Upper, from 818 m² to 294,591 m² (29.46 ha, 72.8 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1282600: 294,591 m² (29.46 ha, 72.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282600.md - Parcel 1270518: 230,619 m² (23.06 ha, 56.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270518.md - Parcel 1270260: 12,778 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270260.md - Parcel 3318078: 7,522 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3318078.md - Parcel 1294810: 4,345 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294810.md - Parcel 5695528: 3,923 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5695528.md - Parcel 3173507: 3,269 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3173507.md - Parcel 5695546: 3,234 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5695546.md - Parcel 5695547: 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5695547.md - Parcel 1262063: 3,100 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262063.md - Parcel 2693823: 2,948 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693823.md - Parcel 2449998: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2449998.md - Parcel 1249222: 2,771 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249222.md - Parcel 1276733: 2,737 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276733.md - Parcel 1282009: 2,719 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282009.md - Parcel 1277597: 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277597.md - Parcel 1281475: 2,385 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281475.md - Parcel 5695527: 1,631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5695527.md - Parcel 1286582: 1,585 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286582.md - Parcel 1267978: 1,573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267978.md - Parcel 1259910: 1,232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259910.md - Parcel 6086570: 818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6086570.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 12 Aug 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560624: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560624/0 - 22 Oct 2021, Wicklow County Council 211275: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211275/0 - 7 Oct 2021, Wicklow County Council 211210: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211210/0 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Johnstown Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Johnstown Upper. ## 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 Upper, 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 Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolastingan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolastingan.md - Johnstown Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-hill.md - Johnstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-lower.md - Slieveduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/slieveduff.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/thomastown.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/johnstown-upper