Whitechurch

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitechurch, from 183 m² to 254,523 m² (25.45 ha, 62.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Whitechurch 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Whitechurch in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Whitechurch.

Recorded monuments

• TS081-010001 Church
  Description

  On the crest of a natural rise in gently undulating terrain, both tillage and pasture in the surrounding fields. The church is positioned close to the road on the N side of a graveyard (TS081-010003-) which may form part of a larger enclosure (TS081-010002-). The church (dims. 18.4m x 8.65m) is aligned E-W and constructed of limestone masonry, roughly coursed. The E gable is in good condition and is fully intact, though ivy clad. The N wall (H 2.2m above int.; H 3m above ext.; Wth c. 1m) is heavily ivy clad, as is the S wall, though a section towards the W end has collapsed. The W wall has completely collapsed, but the wall-footings are visible. In the E gable there are two single-light windows, the heads obscured by ivy, but according to the OS Letters the windows were 'shamrockheaded' which implies a cusped-ogee or trefoil-headed window (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.1, 14). The interior ground level is raised above the exterior. Towards the W end of the N wall there is a broken-out section of masonry (Wth 0.85m), possibly a broken-out narrow single-light window with a crude relieving arch above it. A portion of the S wall near the E gable only survives to c. 0.8m above the interior and there may have been a window at this point. The doorway is likely to have been towards the W end of the S wall, where there is a broken-out gap in the masonry. According to the OS Letters there was a 'rude doorway in the north wall', but this does not correspond to the surviving evidence (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 14). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS081-010002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  According to Killanin and Duignan (1967, 133) the church at Whitechurch (TS81-010001-) is surrounded by 'an ancient, circular enclosure'. It is possible that the present stone-walled graveyard (TS081-010003-) forms the SW quadrant of a larger, roughly circular enclosure. Faint traces of this possible enclosure are visible on the N side of the road, opposite the church, on an aerial photograph (CUCAP 19 July 1970 BDS 24). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS081-010003 Graveyard
  Description

  On the crest of a natural rise in gently undulating terrain, both tillage and pasture in the surrounding fields. The church (TS81-010001-) is positioned close to the road on the N side of the irregularly-shaped graveyard (max. dims. 47m N-S; 59m E--W). The gravestones within the church and in the surrounding graveyard are 18th, 19th and 20th century in date. The graveyard which may form part of a larger enclosure (TS081-010002-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 07 January 2014

• TS081-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In relatively flat terrain on a low ridge, in gently undulating pastureland. This bivallate ringfort consists of a roughly circular area (diam. 23.4m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.6m crest, 4.4m base; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.73m); wide, U-shaped fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 1.7m) and outer bank (Wth 1.7m crest, 5.1m base; ext. H 0.7m). Both banks are of earth and stone construction. The interior is grass covered with some gorse and scrub on the banks. Traces of lazy beds in the interior. In the W quadrant the inner bank and part of the interior have been quarried into, a lime kiln is shown in this area on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and the bank is disturbed in this quadrant on the later 1906 ed. The outer bank has been disturbed and partially flattened in the SW quadrant and the fosse has been filled in in the NW quadrant, possibly as a result of the quarrying activity. In the SE quadrant the outer bank terminates forming a gap (Wth 1.2m) between it and a short earthen bank (L 10m) which runs E-W up to the edge of the monument. This may be an entrance feature though there is no causeway over the fosse at this point. The inner face of the outer bank has been truncated in the S quadrant, some large stones are visible in the exposed face. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 07 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Whitechurch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Whitechurch · An Teampall Geal

Area

1,200,438 m² (120.04 ha, 296.63 acres)

Civil parish

Whitechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Tubbrid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

653 people lived in 227 households in the Tubbrid electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burges, Clonmore South, Garryroan, Monaderreen, Peahill, Tincurry

Placenames

Whitechurch 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.