Whitefield

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitefield, from 337 m² to 447,584 m² (44.76 ha, 110.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Whitefield 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.

• 26 Apr 2024Conditional

  MRG CONSULTING ENGINEERS LTD ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF ST FRANCIS SPECIAL SCHOOL, INTENDS TO APPLY TO KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW AT GRADE CAR PARK PROVIDING A TOTAL OF 19 CAR PARKING SPACES AND 4 MINI BUS SPACES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING STORMWATER DRAINAGE AND PUBLIC LIGHTING, ON THEIR LANDS AT WHITEFIELD, BEAUFORT, CO. KERRY.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460256

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ST KEVIN'S CARE UNIT AT ST MARY OF THE ANGELS, WHITEFIELD, BEAUFORT, CO KERRY.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460184

• 11 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19600

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18587

• 23 May 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18489

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  FOR SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO 2 EXISTING RESIDENTIAL UNITS, KNOWN AS CHALET 1 AND CHALET 2, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18328

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitefield.

Architectural heritage

• The Reeks, country house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1825, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, built c. 1720. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre and five-bay two-storey lower return to rear to north-west. Renovated and extended to south-west, post-1921, on an L-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey lateral wing with two-bay two-storey projecting end bay to south-west having three-bay side elevation and nine-bay single-storey return to rear to north-west. Pitched and hipped roof slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks having cornices, overhanging eaves with plastered soffit and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with limestone plinth. Timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Paired render pilasters and entablature to timber double-leaf glazed door with carvings. Round-headed paired two pane windows to sides of porch. Walled garden, built c. 1820, to south-west with red brick walls.

• The Reeks, gate lodge, 1820–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey Italianate gate lodge, built c. 1850, with single-bay single-storey projecting bay to right and single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to left having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to front. Extended to west, c. 1975, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, group of central rendered chimneystacks and moulded stone coping. Painted and rendered walls with render pilasters to porch. Projecting bay to front with three round-headed windows. Timber two-over-two pane sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars and limestone sills. Flat-roofed corner porch with four-panel door. Gateway, built c. 1850, to south-west comprising four limestone ashlar octagonal piers with cast-iron gates and railings.

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 Whitefield, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_115 (ZIP).

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 Whitefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Whitefield · Bánchluain

Area

1,156,278 m² (115.63 ha, 285.72 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Kilgobnet, the unit of the census

Census 2022

984 people lived in 325 households in the Kilgobnet electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlaghas, Ardraw, Ballymalis, Cooleanig, Gortnaskarry, Tullig

Placenames

Whitefield 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.