# Whitecastle, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Upper Moville, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Caisleán Geal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 466,507 m² (46.65 ha, 115.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Upper Moville, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/upper-moville.md - Barony: Inishowen East - Electoral division: Whitecastle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15417 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52666 - Centre: latitude 55.142235, longitude -7.174262 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitecastle, from 34 m² to 80,983 m² (8.1 ha, 20.01 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1368532: 80,983 m² (8.1 ha, 20.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1368532.md - Parcel 1414437: 80,405 m² (8.04 ha, 19.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414437.md - Parcel 1523291: 52,593 m² (5.26 ha, 13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523291.md - Parcel 1405840: 37,369 m² (3.74 ha, 9.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405840.md - Parcel 1523241: 31,066 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523241.md - Parcel 1379856: 26,020 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379856.md - Parcel 1413984: 24,170 m² (2.42 ha, 5.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413984.md - Parcel 1523292: 19,328 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523292.md - Parcel 1413978: 14,961 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413978.md - Parcel 1424232: 14,954 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424232.md - Parcel 1305609: 14,856 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305609.md - Parcel 1522569: 14,042 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522569.md - Parcel 1414205: 4,750 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414205.md - Parcel 1333623: 3,762 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333623.md - Parcel 5516166: 3,533 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5516166.md - Parcel 1321770: 2,947 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321770.md - Parcel 1337628: 2,883 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337628.md - Parcel 1409172: 2,608 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409172.md - Parcel 1402797: 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402797.md - Parcel 1523240: 2,395 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523240.md - Parcel 4185856: 2,317 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4185856.md - Parcel 1325616: 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325616.md - Parcel 1374138: 2,179 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374138.md - Parcel 1361691: 1,726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361691.md - Parcel 4866655: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4866655.md - Parcel 1342323: 1,338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342323.md - Parcel 1319838: 1,304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319838.md - Parcel 1382664: 1,092 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382664.md - Parcel 1373128: 1,041 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373128.md - Parcel 1522570: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522570.md - Parcel 1379664: 861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379664.md - Parcel 1340331: 707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340331.md - Parcel 3662535: 625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662535.md - Parcel 1387038: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387038.md - Parcel 1329889: 251 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329889.md - Parcel 1336944: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336944.md - Parcel 1341032: 34 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341032.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 23 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2561049: Conditional. Permission. MINOR AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561049/0 - 7 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351686: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351686/0 - 27 Feb 2023, Donegal County Council 2350226: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350226/0 - 14 Feb 2022, Donegal County Council 2250231: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250231/0 - 23 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851300: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851300/0 - 5 Mar 2018, Donegal County Council 1850324: N/a. Permission. EXTENSION TO AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850324/0 - 16 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750413: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750413/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Lough Foyle SPA, site code 004087, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004087 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG031-006: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG031-006----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG031-007001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG031-007002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - White Castle, country house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40903103, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40903103. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitecastle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitecastle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitecastle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Whitecastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Creehennan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creehennan.md - Drung: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drung-51156.md - Roosky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roosky-52297.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitecastle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/whitecastle