Whitehill

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehill, from 41 m² to 290,795 m² (29.08 ha, 71.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Whitehill 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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and install an on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system.

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2660356

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  development (which is at variance with previous permission granted under PL 20/166 ) consisting of (1) dwelling and garage as constructed at revised locations, (2) alterations to fenestration of dwelling house, (3) amended & extended application site boundaries and (4) revised location of effluent treatment unit

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360099

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing two storey dwelling house with all associated internal and external alterations and the construction of a detached single storey garage with all associated site works and landscaping

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2317

• 13 Apr 2022Conditional

  development consisting of alterations to previously approved (Planning Permission Ref: 96/693), existing two-storey dormer dwelling house with associated site entrance gates and site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 22134

• 3 Jun 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and install a on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20166

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 Whitehill.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the S-facing slope of a low ridge. A raised circular area (24m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) along the S and W arcs and incorporated into a field boundary along the N and E arcs. A low lip remains along the internal edge of the bank on the N, E and S arcs. A possible entrance (Wth 3m) is at S. A band of thistles (Wth 3m) to S and W may indicate the line of a silted up fosse. The N and E arcs are covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level rocky wet pasture. A slightly raised roughly circular area (16m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m) along the W arc and by a scarp elsewhere. The external fosse (Wth 2m) is best preserved along the W arc. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. A slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. 1.4m) NE-NW and by a linear E-W field boundary on the straight N side. The remains of a stone kerb is evident along the internal face of the bank. An external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m) is evident S-W. There is a possible entrance (Wth 3m) at SE. An infilled quarry lies c. 10m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Whitehill, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1184 (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 Whitehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Whitehill · An Cnoc Bán

Area

1,254,635 m² (125.46 ha, 310.03 acres)

Civil parish

Tawnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lakeview, the unit of the census

Census 2022

511 people lived in 185 households in the Lakeview electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanascarva, Cloonymeenaghan, Drumraine, Lissycoyne, Sheerevagh, Tawnagh, Tobernaglashy

Placenames

Whitehill 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.