# Whitefield, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockane, barony of Dunkerron North, Co. Kerry; in Irish Bánchluain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,156,278 m² (115.63 ha, 285.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,753 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/knockane.md - Barony: Dunkerron North - Electoral division: Kilgobnet, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23487 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72692 - Centre: latitude 52.08076, longitude -9.703219 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitefield, from 337 m² to 447,584 m² (44.76 ha, 110.6 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1240820: 447,584 m² (44.76 ha, 110.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240820.md - Parcel 5387827: 150,151 m² (15.02 ha, 37.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5387827.md - Parcel 3958914: 123,098 m² (12.31 ha, 30.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3958914.md - Parcel 5403314: 5,983 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5403314.md - Parcel 4941020: 4,753 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941020.md - Parcel 1222837: 4,210 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222837.md - Parcel 5506070: 3,260 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5506070.md - Parcel 4859658: 1,634 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859658.md - Parcel 5387934: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5387934.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 26 Apr 2024, Kerry County Council 2460256: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460256/0 - 28 Mar 2024, Kerry County Council 2460184: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460184/0 - 11 Jun 2019, Kerry County Council 19600: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19600/0 - 15 Jun 2018, Kerry County Council 18587: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A DWELLING SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18587/0 - 23 May 2018, Kerry County Council 18489: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCT DWELLING SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18489/0 - 11 Apr 2018, Kerry County Council 18328: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. FOR SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO 2 EXISTING RESIDENTIAL UNITS, KNOWN AS CHALET 1 AND CHALET 2, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES ALL. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18328/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC, site code 000343, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000343 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitefield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - The Reeks, country house, 1810–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21305704, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21305704. 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, registry number 21306506, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21306506. 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. ## 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 Whitefield, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_115, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_115.zip (ZIP). - 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/kerry/whitefield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/whitefield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/whitefield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Whitefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardlaghas: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardlaghas.md - Ardraw: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardraw.md - Ballymalis: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymalis.md - Cooleanig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cooleanig.md - Gortnaskarry: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnaskarry.md - Tullig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tullig-72673.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/kerry/whitefield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/whitefield