Pride of Place 2026

Extra Large Town

Johnstown has a significant population with over 3,000 homes. As part of Navan it has it's own identifiable community and our varied endeavors to improve and maintain our neighbourhood draws on support from local residents, four nearby schools, three local sports grounds, government bodies, and several local businesses.

2025/26 Johnstown Map

Map showing areas where people from your community are actively helping to improve our neighbourhood.

Multi-Year Plan

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Wide Area Projects

Biodiversity Parks

Can we significantly change how we manage our estate lawns?

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Apple Tree Mapping

Help us to help your apple trees bear fruit by finding them a pollination partner

Garden Bird Survey

Conducted by BirdWatch Ireland this is a popular citizen science survey that monitors garden birds and we'd like you to join in.

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Estate Projects

Bridge Display

Bridging the gap for bees with flowers for pollinators - now using river water.

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Fruiting Hedge

A new proposal is taking shape to potentially plant an 80m fruit bearing hedge to front the Bothar Sion & Balis Downs fence that previously hosted our wildflower display.

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Urban Orchard

Trees offer food, shelter, and safety to 1000's of species - we also like to see them to flower and then fruit.

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Verge Upgrade

We're going to make the Athlumney Hall Verge more presentable and reduce the maintenance too.

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Native Irish Life-Hedge

Proposed 80m living wall and tree sceening the homes from the busy road.

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End of the Road Site.

Sometimes 'Doing Nothing' and completely leaving an area to be natural is the best thing to do.

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Living Lawn

A practical proposal to stop mowing 95% of the 10,000sqm lawn.

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Winter Lights

They added a sparkle well into the New Year.

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Leaf Mould

Gathered from local streets the leaves soak in the rain before being placed in the cages.

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Steep Bank

Difficult to mow lawn became a great opportunity to create a long grass meadow.

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Kilcarn Bridge Field

Another 'Do Nothing' private field created a meadow for nature.

Map Ref 15 Read More

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Initiatives

Hard On Pavement Weeds

Our 5th year of keeping the Green Km free of chemical weed killer.

Alternative Lawns

We're trialing solutions that provide beneficial biodiversity support, homeowner curb appeal, and reduce lawn maintenance costs, time, and watering requirements.

A 'Win-Win-Win' situation.

Clover Lawn

Red Thyme Lawn

Travel Motivation

Can we help turn the daily school run into a "trail," encouraging kids and parents to choose active travel over cars.

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Lawns For Life

We continue to experiment & encourage different lawn management: delayed grass cutting, longer between cuts, and even no cuts at all.

Weather Forecast

We are proposing that students from Coláiste na Mí and St. Stephen’s will manage a weather station.

Thermal Mapping

We are proposing to identify Urban Heat Islands and insulation weaknesses in buildings