Whitehouse
Whitehouse is a townland in the civil parish of Fontstown, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is An Teach Geal.
- Area
- 90.2 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,924 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehouse, from 680 m² to 305,466 m² (30.55 ha, 75.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Nov 2022Conditional
for a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) domestic garage, c) upgrading of existing entrance, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221358
10 Feb 2022Conditional
for development at Whitehouse, Mullaghmoyne, Suncroft, Co. Kildare, R56 YV29. The development consists of retention of as-built variations to planning application Ref: 01/884; and will consist of the construction of a single-storey extension to the side/southeast; the construction of an 9.3 m x 7.3 m detached, single-storey pitched roof double garage to house vehicles and a biomass boiler with woodchip storage; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22138
25 Aug 2020Conditional
a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new combined entrance c) domestic garage, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20955
19 Aug 2020N/a
(a) Proposed new single storey dwelling; (b) New combined entrance; (c) Domestic garage; (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20929
11 Aug 2020N/a
a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new combined entrance c) domestic garage, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20887
11 Apr 2019Refused
a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b)new vehicle entrance, c) domestic garage, d) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19398
22 Feb 2018Conditional
change of house type from that granted under Planning Ref. No. 15/205. The revised house type is a single storey dwelling with an overall ridge height as per the previous dwelling granted under Planning Ref. No. 15/205
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18180
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Whitehouse.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehouse.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitehouse.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2573 (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.
Homes sold
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. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Whitehouse · An Teach Geal
- Area
- 901,659 m² (90.17 ha, 222.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fontstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Ballyshannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,813 people lived in 577 households in the Ballyshannon electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Borough, Crawnglass, Millfarm, Mullaghmoyne East, Racefield, Tippeenan Lower
- 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.