Whitewell

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitewell, from 6 m² to 4,639 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Whitewell 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.

• 25 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of an additional retail/commercial unit as an

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241318

• 4 Oct 2024N/a

  Permission for the construction of an additional retail/commercial unit

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241229

• 22 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230290

• 15 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of alterations to a detached building occupied by W

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210044

• 11 Jan 2021N/a

  Permission for the retention of alterations to a detached building occupied by t

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210012

• 6 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)

  CONSTRUCT A FRONT PORCH

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160342

• 23 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A 2 STOREY EXTENSION AND INSTALL 2 ROOFLIGHTS TO THE REAR OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160295

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 Whitewell.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitewell.

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey manager's house, built 1939, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to left ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in shared grounds.

• Worker's house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey manager's house, built 1939, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to right ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in shared grounds.

• Worker's house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey manager's house, built 1939, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to left ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in shared grounds.

• Worker's house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey manager's house, built 1939, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to right ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in shared grounds.

• Worker's house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey manager's house, built 1939, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to left ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in shared grounds.

• Worker's house, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey manager's house, built 1939, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to right ground floor; two-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor); rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set in shared grounds.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3056 (ZIP).

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

Name

Whitewell · An Tobar Geal

Area

43,324 m² (4.33 ha, 10.71 acres)

Civil parish

St. Michael's of Feagh, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Wexford No. 2 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wexford No. 2 Urban electoral division: 4,277 people in 1,818 households; 59% of households own their home; 9% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cromwellsfort, Mulgannon, Slipperygreen, Townparks, Whiterock South

Placenames

Whitewell 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.