Whitemill

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitemill, from 26 m² to 85,203 m² (8.52 ha, 21.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Whitemill 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.

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for a single storey extension to rear of existing cottage, elevational changes and internal alterations to existing cottage, construct new site entrance in new location, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works **Further information received 3.3.23**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22885

• 21 Sept 2017Conditional

  Extension of Duration for Ref No. 12/395. Permission for development will consist of a new two storey dwelling house, new domestic garage, new site entrance, new waste water treatment plant & percolation area & all associated site works.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17708

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  Permission for a first floor extension to the side and rear of an existing dwelling including the addition of a light sheltered structure to provide a west wind break, measuring 2.6m high by 4.9m x 4.1m in plan, to the side of the existing sunroom. Also including a new domestic garage located to the east side of the existing dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17594

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Whitemill.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Enclosure defined by a scarp (H 1.8m) at W quadrant and levelled on all other sides. Roadway and modern field boundaries encroach on the site on all sides.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitemill.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3026 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Whitemill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Whitemill · An Muileann Bán

Area

429,333 m² (42.93 ha, 106.09 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymascanlan electoral division: 2,272 people in 737 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annies, Faughart Lower, Monascreebe, Redcow

Placenames

Whitemill 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.