Whitehill
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 105 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 146,157 m² (14.62 ha, 36.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehill, from 1,105 m² to 759,695 m² (75.97 ha, 187.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Whitehill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Feb 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF 6 NO. 21M HIGH GALVANISED FLOODLIGHTING COLUMNS WITH HOODED FLOODLIGHTS TO EXISTING GAELIC PITCH AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660217
15 Aug 2025Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND DETACHED GARAGE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52048
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561400
15 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152048
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods 002011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitehill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitehill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Whitehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Whitehill
- Area
- 1,049,538 m² (104.95 ha, 259.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Templedouglas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templedouglas electoral division: 1,089 people in 352 households; 89% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakilly, Cashelreagh, Doon Glebe, Foxhall, Glenkeeragh, Tullychullion
- Placenames
- Whitehill 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.