# Mountjohn, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Moin Sheáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 334,247 m² (33.42 ha, 82.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,206 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Upper Newcastle, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/upper-newcastle.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Newcastle Upper electoral division: 4,790 people in 1,619 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55665 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251071 - Centre: latitude 53.069007, longitude -6.100974 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountjohn, from 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 236,327 m² (23.63 ha, 58.4 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1257860: 236,327 m² (23.63 ha, 58.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257860.md - Parcel 5394854: 82,925 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5394854.md - Parcel 1277393: 5,878 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277393.md - Parcel 1248891: 4,534 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248891.md - Parcel 1267009: 2,489 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267009.md - Parcel 1285277: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285277.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mountjohn 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 14 Apr 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660293: Conditional. Permission. 1. a sand arena covered by a shed structure 2. a concrete retaining wall 3. a covered dung stead and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660293/0 - 10 Apr 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660283: N/a. Permission. for full planning permission for 1. A sand arena covered by a shed structure 2. A concrete retaining wall 3. A covered dung stead and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660283/0 - 19 Nov 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460716: Conditional. Permission. demolition of existing extension over basement, ground and first floors to rear of dwelling; the construction of replacement rear extension over basement, ground and first floors; and waste treatment system, percolation area and all associated landscaping and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460716/0 - 26 Jun 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460376: Conditional. Permission. creation of a granny flat in part of existing garage and play room, new roof, windows and external wall to existing garage and play room which is to be part converted to a granny flat and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460376/0 - 26 Jan 2023, Wicklow County Council 2365: Conditional. Permission. development consists of the installation of a new effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2365/0 - 3 Aug 2021, Wicklow County Council 21953: Conditional. Permission. construction of a Cover Horse arena and storage shed along with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21953/0 - 26 Jul 2021, Wicklow County Council 21913: Conditional. Retention. agriculture shed as built which was granted under planning reference 19/29 and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21913/0 - 15 Jan 2019, Wicklow County Council 1929: Conditional. Permission. 958.3 sqm agriculture storage shed, 396 sqm agricultural storage shed, farmyard, upgrade of existing entrance and lane off public road, new section of laneway to farmyard, new well, new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1929/0 - 30 Oct 2018, Wicklow County Council 181205: Conditional. Retention. lunge ring enclosure and associated work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/181205/0 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 Mountjohn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountjohn. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mount John House, country house, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 16401902, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16401902. Detached five-bay part one part two and part three-storey country house, built c.1800. The east front is finished in painted vertical hung slate while the remainder is finished in render. There are later additions to the west rear. To either side there are flat-roofed semi-circular bays, that to the north is two-storey while that to the south is single-storey. The front timber panelled door is flanked with pilasters with Ionic order capitals, these support a projecting cornice over which is a radial fanlight set within an elliptical-headed opening. On either side are sidelights with diamond panes. Window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are rendered with plain caps and clay pots. The country house is set within a large mature garden. - Mount John House, gate lodge, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 16401903, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16401903. Detached three-bay one and a half-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, now in use as a house. The building is finished in roughcast render with square Tudor style drip mouldings. The replacement timber door is set within a projecting gabled single-storey bay; it has a four-pane fanlight and a drip moulding over. Windows are flat-headed with uPVC replacement frames. The roof is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. The chimneystack is rendered and has bold corbels. The house is slightly set back from the road behind a low rendered wall with square panelled gate pillars and wrought-iron gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3368, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3368.zip (ZIP). - 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/mountjohn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mountjohn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mountjohn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountjohn 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) - Dunran Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunran-demesne.md - Killadreenan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killadreenan.md - Kiltimon: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kiltimon.md - Prospect Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/prospect-lower.md - Prospect Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/prospect-upper.md - Timmore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/timmore.md - Trudder: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/trudder.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/mountjohn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/mountjohn