Mountjohn

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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Apr 2026Conditional

  1. a sand arena covered by a shed structure 2. a concrete retaining wall 3. a covered dung stead and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660293

• 10 Apr 2026N/a

  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

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660283

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  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

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460716

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  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

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460376

• 26 Jan 2023Conditional

  development consists of the installation of a new effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2365

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of a Cover Horse arena and storage shed along with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21953

• 26 Jul 2021Conditional

  agriculture shed as built which was granted under planning reference 19/29 and associate works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21913

• 15 Jan 2019Conditional

  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

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1929

• 30 Oct 2018Conditional

  lunge ring enclosure and associated work

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 181205

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 Mountjohn.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountjohn.

Architectural heritage

• Mount John House, country house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Mountjohn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Mountjohn · Moin Sheáin

Area

334,247 m² (33.42 ha, 82.59 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunran Demesne, Killadreenan, Kiltimon, Prospect Lower, Prospect Upper, Timmore, Trudder

Placenames

Mountjohn 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.