Whitestown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitestown, from 1,899 m² to 179,676 m² (17.97 ha, 44.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Whitestown 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.

• 31 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF NEW ROOF STRUCTURE OVER EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS AND FOR PLA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160320

• 25 Feb 2016N/a

  RETENTION OF NEW ROOF STRUCTURE OVER EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS AND FOR PLA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160179

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 Whitestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitestown.

Architectural heritage

• Whitestown House, farm house, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1798, on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 1980. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on fluted keystone framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with repointed cut-granite piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping.

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 Whitestown, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3023 (ZIP).

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 Whitestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Whitestown · Baile an Fhaoitigh

Area

432,360 m² (43.24 ha, 106.84 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,818 people lived in 634 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilliane, Brookfield, Churchtown, Fortyacres, Kellystown, Levitstown, Pollbrean, Quanstown

Placenames

Whitestown 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.