# Whitehouse, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killea, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 248,785 m² (24.88 ha, 61.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,914 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killea, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killea.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Killea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15285 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52672 - Centre: latitude 54.948567, longitude -7.415676 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehouse, from 481 m² to 3,346 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5792183: 3,346 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5792183.md - Parcel 5766329: 481 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5766329.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 11 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2351011: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND RELOCATION OF EXISTING ACCESS ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351011/0 - 5 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151335: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151335/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans, site code 002067 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehouse. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - White House, house, 1870–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40828011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40828011. 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. ## 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 Whitehouse, 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 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 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/whitehouse.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitehouse.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitehouse.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Whitehouse 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) - Cloghfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghfin-50643.md - Dunmore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunmore-51175.md - Glasmullan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glasmullan-51301.md - Newtownhamilton: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtownhamilton.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/whitehouse - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/whitehouse