Whitecommons

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitecommons, from 145 m² to 120,111 m² (12.01 ha, 29.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• P5RA - 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  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

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660206

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME017-001 Bridge
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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 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.

No address of the register names Whitecommons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Whitecommons

Area

402,931 m² (40.29 ha, 99.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kells, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Ceanannas Mór Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Archdeaconry Glebe, Cakestown Glebe, Dulane, Mountainpole or Rochfortsland, Townparks, Wilmount

Placenames

Whitecommons 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.