Whitecastle

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitecastle, from 34 m² to 80,983 m² (8.1 ha, 20.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Whitecastle 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.

• 23 Jun 2025Conditional

  MINOR AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561049

• 7 Nov 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL TYPE BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRADING OYSTERS, TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CAR PARKING FACILITIES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351686

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING TWO STOREY AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO PROVIDE FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION, TO INCLUDE ALL NECESSARY RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS AND (2) PROVISION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF THE PROTECTED STRUCTURE OF WHITECASTLE HOUSE (RPS 40903103)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350226

• 14 Feb 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL TYPE BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRADING OYSTERS, TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CAR PARKING FACILITIES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250231

• 23 Aug 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PROVISION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL LAND, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851300

• 5 Mar 2018N/a

  EXTENSION TO AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850324

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750413

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Foyle SPA 004087

Recorded monuments

• DG031-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 25m. A subcircular area, enclosed by an earthen bank with several breaks but no definite original entrance. The internal height varies from .75m to 1.5m. On the NW side there is a faint trace of an outer bank, on the E side, however, a fosse and outer bank are still in situ. Situated on slightly sloping ground, overlooking Lough Foyle to the SE, higher ground to NW, in good cultivated land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG031-007001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  White Castle (site of): Occupied in 1601 by Brian age McLaughlin, in 1654-6 it belonged to Major George Carey, tenant to Lord Chichester, who had been granted the whole of Inishowen at the time of the Plantation (Simmington 1937, 2; Davies and Swan 1939, 208). It was probably sited on or near the present Whitecastle, a late 18th century house (Rowan 1979, 477). The site is marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Apart from some possible fragments, in the yard, there is no visible trace of this castle. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG031-007002 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  This is Whitecastle, 'a late 18th century house' (Rowan 1979, 477). The above description was published in the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• White Castle, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey with attic house built, c. 1780, with two-storey with attic canted entrance bay, shallow bowed gable elevations, two-storey canted bay to rear, and single-storey canted extension to north. Hipped slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed tripartite windows flanking canted entrance bay with six-over-six timber sashes; square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals with six-over-six timber sash windows, horned to entrance bay; round-arch-headed lunette with smooth reveals and timber spoked glazing to top of entrance bay; timber casements to north extension. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber surround and door. Set within own grounds, overlooking Lough Foyle, with remains of outbuildings to site; former entrance to south, no longer in use, comprising wrought-iron gates mounted on ashlar squared piers with random rubble curtain walls with pedestrian entrances surrounded by block-and-start red brick quoins.

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 Whitecastle, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Whitecastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Whitecastle · An Caisleán Geal

Area

466,507 m² (46.65 ha, 115.28 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Whitecastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

977 people lived in 336 households in the Whitecastle electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creehennan, Drung, Roosky

Placenames

Whitecastle 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.