Whiteriver

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whiteriver, from 36 m² to 169,025 m² (16.9 ha, 41.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Whiteriver 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.

• 5 May 2026Refused

  Retention and completion of an existing partially constructed single storey dwelling house and full permission for revisions to the existing vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. The dwelling and entrance were originally granted planning permission under planning reference number 18712 (Permission sought for alterations and extension to an existing single storey cottage, demolition of an existing outbuilding, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area). Note all foul and surface water drainage details as per those granted and installed on foot of planning reference number 18712

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660260

• 12 Feb 2026Conditional

  Permission for proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, utilising existing shared vehicular entrance (also serves adjoining dwelling under construction) and all associated works, previously granted permission Ref. No. 20/695 & varied Ref. No. 21/415

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660066

• 9 Jan 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 20/691 - Permission for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and shared vehicular entrance to also serve adjoining site seeking permission concurrently and all associated works

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 262

• 24 Jun 2025Refused

  Retention and completion of an existing partially constructed single storey dwelling house and revised vehicular entrance. The dwelling and entrance were originally granted planning permission under planning reference number 18712 (Permission sought for alterations and extension to an existing single storey cottage, demolition of an existing outbuilding, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area) and all associated works. Note all foul and surface water drainage details as per those granted and installed on foot of planning reference number 18712. *Significant Further Information Received on 10/10/2025*

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560389

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permision for the development which will consist of, change of use from residential to short term letting to existing dwelling at Whiteriver, Collon, Co. Louth, A92 X306

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560124

• 28 Feb 2025N/a

  The development will consist of change of use from residential to short term letting to existing dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560112

• 30 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission for an agricultural building (Floor Area=1104m2, Height = 11.65m) & associated site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 14/11/2025*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560043

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission for the stoned access laneway and stoned area for the parking of agricultural vehicles associated with agri contracting business and 2 no. articulated trailers for the storage of feed-supplies associated with snail agri business together with all site development works including access from the public road

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460582

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for the dwelling ‘as constructed’ together with all site development works including access from the public road & mechanical wastewater treatment unit and for permission to construct soil polishing filter and boundary treatment

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460520

• 8 Sept 2022N/a

  Retention permission for 1. the domestic garage as built (permitted under file ref. 19/152) including alterations to the permitted elevations, footprint, internal layout and location of the garage; 2. retention of the temporary change of use of the garage to residential use; 3. retention of the hard stand area; 4. retention of the extension to the redline boundary as permitted under ref. 19/152 to facilitate the revised location of the domestic garage and hard stand area and all other associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22712

• 11 Mar 2022Refused

  retention permission and completion of alterations to elevations including chimney flue to office/tack room/feed store granted permission ref. no. 21418 and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22179

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  retention and permission - retention of an existing gravel roadway within the site that provides a right of way to access adjoining agricultural lands and planning permission for a new dwelling house, effluent treatment plant and percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2284

• 17 Dec 2021Refused

  permission for extension to existing stables (granted permission under ref. no. 21/418), manure pit and effluent holding tank and all associated site works *Further information received 27.7.22*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211498

• 19 Nov 2021N/a

  Permission for development to comprise of new dwelling house, effluent treatment plant and percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211393

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of proposed change of house design from that previously granted permission under ref. no. 20/695 and all associated works with all other details as per previously granted permission

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21415

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retention and Permission: Retention for as constructed horse stables, office/works station, temporary mobile home, temporary waste disposal holding tank, entrance piers and proposed alteration to same in relation to permission granted ref. no. 18/713. Permission for detached dwelling, waste water treatment system and percolation area, extension to office building to include tack room and feed store and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information submitted 29/9/21 provided for, inter alia, the removal of the mobile home and omission of the dwelling house*

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 21418

• 8 Sept 2020Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and shared vehicular entrance to also serve adjoining site seeking permission concurrently and all associated works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20691

• 8 Sept 2020Conditional

  Permission for proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and shared vehicular entrance to also serve adjoining site seeking permission concurrently and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20695

• 17 Jul 2020N/a

  Retention & Permission: Retention of temporary mobile home on site, as constructed detached office accommodation in relation to planning reference 18/713 and 18/712, permission for extension to office building to include tack room and feed store and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20525

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission for a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and for all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19152

• 7 Sept 2018Conditional

  Permission sought for alterations and extension to an existing single storey cottage, demolition of an existing outbuilding, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area. *Significant Further Information Received on 24/07/2019*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18712

• 7 Sept 2018Conditional

  Permission sought for new agricultural entrance, construction of stand alone office/work station and stand alone horse stables and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18713

• 30 Jul 2018N/a

  Permission sought for new agricultural entrance, construction of stand alone office/work station and stand alone hourse stables and all associated

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18599

• 30 Jul 2018N/a

  Permission sought for alterations and extension to existing single storey dwelling, new domestic vehicular entrance, new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, demolition of existing outbuildings.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18601

• 11 Apr 2018Refused

  Permission for alterations and extension to an existing single storey cottage, demolition of an existing outbuilding, new domestic vehicular entrance, new agricultural entrance, construction of a standalone office/work station and standalone horse stables, new septic tank and percolation area and associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18269

The 25 most recent of 26 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mellifont Abbey Woods 001464

Recorded monuments

• LH017-081 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 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 36.5m by 32.5m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 5m, H 0.7m internally, c. 1.2-1.9m externally) with external fosse which appears to have been recut and has modern drainage banks outside on the SW. Ancient entrance gap (Wth 3.5m) and causeway (Wth 7m, H 0.6m) at NE.

• LH017-082 Enclosure
  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 Cropmark ring indicating almost circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 32m N-S, c. 30m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AJY 37). An adjoining cropmark at S defines a sub-triangular annexe (max. dims. c. 25m E-W, c. 23m NNE-SSW).

• LH018-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Three sides of a rectilinear enclosure and a number of pits were identified in 2004 during archaeological monitoring of top soil stripping as part of the extension to the Whiteriver Landfill site (Excavation Licence No. 04E0601) (Bolger 2004, 270). Partial excavation (Excavation Licence No. 04E1531) uncovered a number of further pits, postholes and ditches and established that the enclosure measured c. 24m x 19m. A fragment of a lignite bracelet was recovered from an upper fill of the ditch of the rectilinear enclosure. The excavator suggested that the enclosure probably dates to the Early Christian period. The site was preserved in situ. (McConway 2007, 270) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 11 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whiteriver.

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 Whiteriver with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Whiteriver · An Abhainn Bhán

Area

1,321,379 m² (132.14 ha, 326.52 acres)

Civil parish

Mosstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunleer electoral division: 3,270 people in 1,088 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Collon, Corlisbane, Gunstown, Knockaleva, Philipstown, Rathescar Middle

Placenames

Whiteriver 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.