Whitehall

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehall, from 473 m² to 222,195 m² (22.22 ha, 54.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Whitehall 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.

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  Alterations to existing outbuildings including the reinstatement of historic windows, and additional windows to historic detail with the alteration of nine east facing openings, the creation of four additional east facing window openings, the alteration of one west facing opening, the creation of one additional west facing opening and the alteration of three south facing openings

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/251

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  Installation of toilet facilities in the existing ancillary shed including installation of a septic tank system and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/811

• 28 Jul 2021Refused

  Change of use of part of existing storage shed to use as dwelling ancillary to neighbouring castle. Works include upgrding existing structure to provide new thermally insulated envelope with door and window openings, extending existing roof to provide covered parking bay, replacement of cladding with metal sheet walls and roof over new insulated masonry base, timber windows and doors and associated siteworks including provision of septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/523

• 12 Nov 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2840

• 8 Jan 2007Conditional

  Construction of Domestic Garage/Store Facilty

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/59

• 4 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of domestic garage/store facility

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2594

• 3 Jul 2006Withdrawn

  Retention and construction and completion of domestic shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1257

• 17 May 2006Incompleted application

  Retention to construct a domestic shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/885

• 22 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Construction of shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9695

• 25 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3556

• 1 Apr 2004Conditional

  Restoration of castle for use as dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2136

• 22 Mar 2004Conditional

  Alterations including raised roof and change of use of outbuilding to ancillary dwelling unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1891

• 27 Jun 2003Refused

  Timber dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3193

• 22 Feb 2002Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/744

• 1 Nov 2000Refused

  Dwelling & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6545

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101

Recorded monuments

• CO149-007 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Rectangular tower-house (9.1m N-S; 11.4m E-W) in elevated position on SE shore Roaringwater Bay; on N side neck of Cunnamore promontory. Now two storeys in height but stood at least one storey higher. Doors in E wall at ground and 1st floor levels (set one above the other); 1st floor door covered by pointed arch. Windows have square-headed lights with splayed and lintelled embrasures. Pointed wicker-centered vault over 1st floor (axis E-W). Mural stairs rise from S side of 1st floor doorway to SE corner where wall now broken. Castle of the O'Driscoll clan, reputedly built in 1495 (Coleman 1926, 47). See Excavations 2004, 70-71, no. 343. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO149-055 Fish-pond
  Description

  A reed bed known locally as 'the fishpond', c. 80 WSW of Whitehall House. Boggy marshy area, enclosed by stone walls with opening. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on information supplied by Terri Kearney. Date of upload/revision: 8 March 2022

Architectural heritage

• White Hall, home farm, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, having single- and two-bay sections to rear (north). Front door set in block attached to east gable. Hipped slate roofs with painted rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted slate hung walls with rendered plinth. Rendered walls to rear sections and to east block. Square-headed openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch opening to rear with eight-over-eight timber sliding sash stained glass window. Camber-headed door opening with timber glazed door having stained glass sidelights, spoked fanlight and timber surround with pilasters and broken-bed pediment with entablature and corbels. Outbuildings in courtyard to north, including single-storey building with cambered-headed openings and renovated outbuilding now in use as house. Landscaped gardens to south-west and north-east. Painted rendered gate piers with ball finials and wrought-iron gate.

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

At the centre of the townland of Whitehall, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Whitehall · Rinn Chúil Uisce

Area

589,043 m² (58.9 ha, 145.56 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadown, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Aghadown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

623 people lived in 252 households in the Aghadown South electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagroghery, Cunnamore, Currabeg, Fasagh, Lissaree

Placenames

Whitehall 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.