Whitehouse

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehouse, from 1,123 m² to 521,212 m² (52.12 ha, 128.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Whitehouse 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.

• 21 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the proposed development to consist of temporary road widening works and construction of temporary sections of stoned roads and all ancillary works on the R691 and R695 at bends and junctions to enable the delivery of turbine components. These works consist of; • Temporary widening of section of the R691 in the townland of Booly comprising construction of a stoned area to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road off the R691 and R695 in the townland of Ballyclovan to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road off the R691 in the townland of Scotsborough to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. The works at this location will include construction of a temporary bridge crossing and all associated drainage and sediment protection, a temporary crane hardstand, temporary welfare facilities and carparking, temporary refuelling area, temporary bridge assembly area and temporary stockpiles. Advisory Note: There are also works required in County Tipperary, and a separate amendment planning application will be made for these to Tipperary County Council. The planning application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460291

• 12 Oct 2023Conditional

  for a four bay agricultural shed with concrete slatted tank and all associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360455

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  for development for construction of (a) An agricultural machinery store and (b) A 4 span agricultural haybarn/multi-purpose shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18461

• 27 Oct 2017Conditional

  to repair the ridge to the thatch on her existing dwelling and general repairs to existing thatch. The existing dwelling is registered on the NIAH reg. no. 12402201

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17710

• 8 Aug 2017Conditional

  for development to extend the accommodation of her existing dwelling by the conversion and extension of the existing adjacent shed to habitable space/accommodation, modification of the ridge-line of the shed and all associated works. Both buildings will work together as one unit. The existing dwelling is registered on the NIAH reg no.12402201.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17521

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehouse.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally four-bay single-storey. Hipped water reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, dwarf chimney stack having red brick capping supporting yellow terracotta pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road on a corner site.

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 Whitehouse, 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 Whitehouse.

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 Whitehouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Whitehouse · An Tigh Bán

Area

1,014,827 m² (101.48 ha, 250.77 acres)

Civil parish

Killaloe, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Scotsborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

174 people lived in 64 households in the Scotsborough electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnacrumpane (Co. Tipperary), Ballyline, Cappagh (Co. Tipperary), Rossmore, Scotsborough

Placenames

Whitehouse 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.