Whitehouse

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehouse, from 481 m² to 3,346 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Whitehouse 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.

• 11 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RELOCATION OF EXISTING ACCESS ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351011

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151335

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: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans 002067

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehouse.

Architectural heritage

• White House, house, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built 1875, having advanced two-storey bay to the north end of the front elevation (west) having canted bay window at ground floor level with flat-roof over having balustraded parapet with inset decorative cast-iron railing, open single-bay porch to the centre of the front elevation (west) having balcony over with balustraded parapet having with inset decorative cast-iron railing, shallow projection to the north elevation having box bay window with paired window openings with raised parapet over having with inset decorative cast-iron railing, two-storey canted bay window to the south elevation having decorative cast-iron ridge cresting over, and with two-storey return to the rear (east). Low hipped natural slate roof having overhanging eaves with smooth rendered eaves course, central pair of stepped rendered chimneystacks with smooth rendered coping and polygonal pots over, and with stepped rendered chimneystacks with smooth rendered coping and polygonal pots over to the rear return and to the rear pitch of roof to the south. Rendered coping over box bay window to the north. No rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, smooth rendered walls to canted bay windows, and with smooth rendered moulded stringcourses at ground and first floor levels brought over top of window openings as architraved heads. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows; single timber casement window and single eight-over-eight pane horned timber sliding sash window to west elevation. Segmental-headed door opening to porch having glazed timber panelled door flanked by sidelights and overlight, and with encaustic tiled threshold. addressed by concrete steps to east of porch. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Carrigans, and a short distance to the north of the River Foyle and the former Carrigans Railway Station. Complex of ruinous two-storey outbuildings to the north-east having remains of (pitched?) natural slate roofs, partially rendered rubble stone walls, and with square-headed openings (now blocked). Gateway to the south-west of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered piers (on square-plan) having chamfered edges, smooth rendered plinth course and pyramidal coping, and with a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.

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 Whitehouse, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Whitehouse

Area

248,785 m² (24.88 ha, 61.48 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghfin, Dunmore, Glasmullan, Newtownhamilton

Placenames

Whitehouse 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.