Whitefort

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitefort, from 127 m² to 206,628 m² (20.66 ha, 51.06 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Whitefort 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.

• 14 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the following; 1) retention of garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250180

• 28 Jan 2025N/a

  Permission for retention of the following; 1) garage with lean-to

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250097

• 27 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211659

• 16 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190654

• 17 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF AN EXISTING DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE, THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181435

• 24 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE & ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181007

• 9 Jul 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION CONSISTING OF AN EXISTING 15 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATI

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180932

• 3 Jul 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180903

• 3 Aug 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF 17M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE (PREVIOUSLY GRA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171028

• 1 Feb 2017N/a

  RETENTION OF EXISTING 17M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170083

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 Whitefort.

Recorded monuments

• WX032-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 55m ENE-WSW; c. 40m NNW-SSE) defined by a single wide fosse feature (Wth c. 4-5m) backs on to an ENE-WSW field bank at S but there is no evidence of the feature continuing on the S side. It was recorded by a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works) during July 2018. See the attached aerial view taken from NE courtesy of Skypix Aerial Works Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January 2019

• WX032-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on fairly level landscape with a slight E-facing slope. In July 2018 a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works) recorded an image of the cropmark of a subcircular or D-shaped curvilinear enclosure (dims c. 32-35m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) defined by a single narrow fosse feature with the straightest side at SE and two small entrance gaps on the NE side. It is overlain by the cropmarks of single ditches from the mapped field system that is now removed. See the attached aerial view taken from E courtesy of Skypix Aerial Works Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2019

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1990. Vacant, 2006. Undergoing "restoration", 2007. Hipped oat thatch roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron-covered ridge off-centred on replacement concrete block chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed roughcast battered walls with limewashed roughcast buttresses to corners (east). Square-headed off-central door opening in elliptical- or segmental-headed recess with rendered stone cobbled threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with three-over-six or two-over-two timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to road in unkempt grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting iron double gates.

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 Whitefort, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitefort.

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

Name

Whitefort · An Ráithín Bán

Area

479,404 m² (47.94 ha, 118.46 acres)

Civil parish

Artramon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Artramon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

807 people lived in 263 households in the Artramon electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarrig, Ballynaslaney, Knockduff, Monmore, Whitefort

Placenames

Whitefort 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.