Whitegate

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitegate, from 89 m² to 281,499 m² (28.15 ha, 69.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Jul 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a sports hall, the extension of an existing gym, the demolition of an existing shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660475

• 3 Mar 2026Conditional

  to demolish existing buildings on site, the construction a new dwelling house, new site entrance, connection to public services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660119

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached domestic garage and all associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2644

• 11 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct 4 No. detached houses along with an extension to the public foul sewer, connections to public services and all associated site works

  Permission, 4 homes · Clare County Council, 2560692

• 6 Oct 2025N/a

  for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25314

• 15 Oct 2018Conditional

  to erect a coated steel mesh fence above existing front boundary block wall adjacent to playing pitch

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18802

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• CL021A010 Church
  Description

  Situated in the village of Whitegate. A rectangular 19th-century Roman Catholic church (ext. dims. 24.58m SE-NW; 10.47m SW-NE). There is a window in the NW gable over the altar area and another window in the SE gable. Four pointed lancet windows with hood mouldings are located in both the SW and NE walls. A wooden gallery supported by carved wooden columns is still in place. The roof is in good condition and has a small cross at one end and a belfry at the other. The church fell out of religious use in 1968 as it was feared the SW wall would collapse. For a number of years boatbuilding took place here. Subsequently the building has been used to house a furniture company and a number of modifications have been made. The original doorway in the SE wall is not extant as it was widened to accommodate the loading of furniture. It has been replaced by a corrugated metal doorway. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 July 2016

Architectural heritage

• Church/chapel, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted double-height former Roman Catholic church, built 1874, with four-bay side elevations and single-storey lean-to sacristy to rear. Deconsecrated and extended to left, c.1970, with gable-fronted double-height replica, to accommodate use as factory. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone bellcote. Rendered walls with quoins. Lancet openings with timber Y-tracery and leaded stained glass. Entrance altered to accommodate use as factory.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Whitegate with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Whitegate · An Geata Bán

Area

1,074,529 m² (107.45 ha, 265.52 acres)

Civil parish

Clonrush, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drummaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drummaan electoral division: 651 people in 251 households; 79% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bargarriff, Cappantruhaun, Cregg, Furnace, Gortnascreeny, Lakyle

Placenames

Whitegate 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.