# Whitefort, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Holycross, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ráth an Leamháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 575,503 m² (57.55 ha, 142.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,976 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Holycross, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/holycross.md - Barony: Eliogarty - Electoral division: Holycross, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,437 people lived in 534 households in the Holycross electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/47109 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 213146 - Centre: latitude 52.637853, longitude -7.89468 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitefort, from 1,185 m² to 273,185 m² (27.32 ha, 67.51 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 556335: 273,185 m² (27.32 ha, 67.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/556335.md - Parcel 542479: 235,412 m² (23.54 ha, 58.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/542479.md - Parcel 557671: 18,248 m² (1.82 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/557671.md - Parcel 522131: 4,773 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/522131.md - Parcel 513963: 4,612 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/513963.md - Parcel 500171: 3,429 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/500171.md - Parcel 537230: 2,981 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/537230.md - Parcel 524583: 2,971 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/524583.md - Parcel 547720: 2,896 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/547720.md - Parcel 574644: 2,295 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/574644.md - Parcel 497669: 2,212 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/497669.md - Parcel 523205: 1,837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/523205.md - Parcel 530111: 1,819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/530111.md - Parcel 562924: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/562924.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 2 Jul 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560632: Conditional. Permission. a new extension to the side of my existing dwelling along with a new percolation area and also some minor changes to existing elevations, and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560632/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Whitefort. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN047-028: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN047-028----. Situated on a W-facing slope in undulating terrain, under pasture. The site is very badly damaged, the area around the base has been quarried and this has extended up to the outer face of the bank. At N the quarry extends into the interior with upcast forming bank around the quarry edge. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. 26m N-S; 24.7m E-W) defined by earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.64m; ext. H 2m), a fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.77m) and a possible outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 1.1m). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitefort. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Whitefort, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitefort. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitefort.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitefort.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitefort.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Whitefort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloghane: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/cloghane.md - Glenreagh More: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/glenreagh-more.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/grange-211731.md - Holycross: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/holycross.md - Killeenyarda: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/killeenyarda.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitefort - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/whitefort