# Whitefield, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish An Pháirc Bhán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 715,014 m² (71.5 ha, 176.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Lacka, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Lacka electoral division: 309 people in 96 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28528 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101114 - Centre: latitude 53.040241, longitude -7.552863 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitefield, from 112 m² to 161,283 m² (16.13 ha, 39.85 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 240665: 161,283 m² (16.13 ha, 39.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240665.md - Parcel 239374: 98,349 m² (9.83 ha, 24.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239374.md - Parcel 245926: 94,771 m² (9.48 ha, 23.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245926.md - Parcel 228861: 77,065 m² (7.71 ha, 19.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228861.md - Parcel 259853: 73,749 m² (7.37 ha, 18.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259853.md - Parcel 227291: 65,179 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227291.md - Parcel 224975: 33,823 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/224975.md - Parcel 358817: 18,924 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/358817.md - Parcel 225572: 17,621 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/225572.md - Parcel 250889: 16,121 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250889.md - Parcel 4952089: 12,623 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952089.md - Parcel 3003674: 10,528 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3003674.md - Parcel 251710: 5,858 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251710.md - Parcel 4948881: 4,741 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4948881.md - Parcel 266150: 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266150.md - Parcel 240294: 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240294.md - Parcel 4947120: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4947120.md - Parcel 267412: 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267412.md - Parcel 4557338: 2,385 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4557338.md - Parcel 5754851: 2,260 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5754851.md - Parcel 262464: 1,543 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/262464.md - Parcel 4441271: 1,503 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4441271.md - Parcel 357697: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/357697.md - Parcel 246709: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/246709.md - Parcel 262101: 1,079 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/262101.md - Parcel 357481: 693 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/357481.md - Parcel 259815: 600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/259815.md - Parcel 5754853: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5754853.md - Parcel 4441266: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4441266.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) 2 applications, newest first. - 10 Jul 2019, Laois County Council 19392: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, septic tank, soil percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19392/0 - 20 Dec 2018, Laois County Council 18780: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construct a single storey detached dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18780/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 ## 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitefield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitefield. - 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/laois/whitefield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/whitefield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/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. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drimhill or Quarryfarm: https://everytownland.com/laois/drimhill-or-quarryfarm.md - Killinure: https://everytownland.com/laois/killinure-100730.md - Lacka: https://everytownland.com/laois/lacka.md - Mountainfarm: https://everytownland.com/laois/mountainfarm.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/laois/whitefield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/whitefield