# Whitecommons, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kells, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 402,931 m² (40.29 ha, 99.57 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,409 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kells, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/kells.md
- Barony: Kells Upper
- Electoral division: Ceanannas Mór Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,980 people lived in 1,700 households in the Ceanannas M�r Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38148
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161607
- Centre: latitude 53.742952, longitude -6.886028 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitecommons, from 145 m² to 120,111 m² (12.01 ha, 29.68 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 136547: 120,111 m² (12.01 ha, 29.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/136547.md
- Parcel 142097: 53,991 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/142097.md
- Parcel 224943: 49,764 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/224943.md
- Parcel 211607: 37,418 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211607.md
- Parcel 4975770: 36,218 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975770.md
- Parcel 139207: 33,284 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/139207.md
- Parcel 174813: 21,765 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/174813.md
- Parcel 153937: 11,318 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153937.md
- Parcel 198922: 4,507 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198922.md
- Parcel 146576: 4,409 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146576.md
- Parcel 160853: 4,309 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160853.md
- Parcel 2978621: 3,955 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2978621.md
- Parcel 193782: 3,938 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193782.md
- Parcel 187898: 2,650 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/187898.md
- Parcel 5433077: 2,278 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5433077.md
- Parcel 169086: 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/169086.md
- Parcel 181876: 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/181876.md
- Parcel 5124077: 640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5124077.md
- Parcel 2978025: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2978025.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 40 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 23 Feb 2026, Meath County Council 2660206: Conditional. Permission. the development will consist of construction of single storey extension to existing dwelling with use of existing septic tank, construction of domestic garage, relocation and widening of existing entrance to include new piers and walls and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660206/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC, site code 002299, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA, site code 004232, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004232

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- ME017-001: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME017-001----. This bridge spans a NW-SE section of the River Blackwater. The bridge, known as Mabe’s Bridge, or Mapes or Malpas (Simington and O’Keefe 1991, 119) carries the R164 road from Kells to Moynalty and Kingscourt, Co. Cavan. It is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) county and barony maps, and its name derives from the Mape family who held land at Maperath in Moynalty parish into the seventeenth century (Simington 1940, 305). The bridge has six arches and was expanded in width twice, from the SE (Wth 2m), to the central (Wth 1.2m), and NW (Wth 3m) sections. The last expansion probably took place in 1803 when major works were undertaken (ibid.). The parapet is level and there are no refuges. Repairs to the bridge in 1988 allowed a thorough survey to be undertaken when it was found to be partly built on bedrock. The central portion was built partly on the cut-waters of the original bridge and the down-river arches lack dressed stonework (ibid. 120-1). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 12 April 2019

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Whitecommons, 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: 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 Whitecommons.
- 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/meath/whitecommons.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/whitecommons.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/whitecommons.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Whitecommons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Archdeaconry Glebe: https://everytownland.com/meath/archdeaconry-glebe.md
- Cakestown Glebe: https://everytownland.com/meath/cakestown-glebe.md
- Dulane: https://everytownland.com/meath/dulane.md
- Mountainpole or Rochfortsland: https://everytownland.com/meath/mountainpole-or-rochfortsland.md
- Townparks: https://everytownland.com/meath/townparks-161558.md
- Wilmount: https://everytownland.com/meath/wilmount.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.

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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/meath/whitecommons
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/whitecommons