Whitepark
Whitepark is a townland in the civil parish of Touaghty, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Pháirc Bhán.
- Area
- 38.9 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 27,839 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitepark, from 1,331 m² to 93,714 m² (9.37 ha, 23.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Whitepark 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
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
27 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA, ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21550
30 Mar 2021Conditional
Construct agricultural building with associated yard as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21277
12 Nov 2018N/a
CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF A NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND CUBICLES WITH ANCILLARY SILAGE SLAB. CONSTRUCT ROAD UNDERPASS FOR AGRICULTURAL USE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18902
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 Whitepark.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitepark.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitepark.
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 Whitepark, about 1 in 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitepark.
- 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 Whitepark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Whitepark · An Pháirc Bhán
- Area
- 388,844 m² (38.88 ha, 96.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Touaghty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Burriscarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 453 people lived in 166 households in the Burriscarra electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaglea, Clooneencarra, Cloonnagoppoge, Stonepark, Stuckeen
- Placenames
- Whitepark 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.