Whitehall
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Halla Bán
- Area
- 39.7 ha
- 98 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 20,201 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehall, from 12,266 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres) to 334,184 m² (33.42 ha, 82.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Whitehall 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Dec 2021Conditional
1. construction of an outdoor sand arena with floodlighting, car parking area, new entrance and access road including associated siteworks 2. refurbishment and extension of existing cottage including conversion of existing stables for use as domestic accommodation and installation of a new sewage treatment system
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211798
23 Nov 2021N/a
1) construction of an outdoor sand arena with floodlighting including associated siteworks, 2) refurbishment and extension of existing cottage including installation of a new sewage treatment system
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211700
26 Sept 2018Conditional
(a) demolition of existing milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms & waiting yard, (b) demolition of existing 3 no cubicle sheds, feed passage and flow channel, (c) construction of an agricultural building to include cubicles, straw bedding area and underground slatted tank, (d) construction of 2 no silage pits (e) construction of a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, waiting yard, feed silo, water storage tank & underground slatted parlour washings tank and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601175
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Whitehall.
Recorded monuments
- TN011-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a very gradual SE slope in pasture. A small stream enters the fosse at N. A circular area (diam. 45m NW-SE; 48m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.38m) and partly waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.7m) at SE. The landowner built up this causeway and inserted a concrete cylindrical culvert to allow the stream to flow through. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitehall.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitehall.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Whitehall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Whitehall · An Halla Bán
- Area
- 396,696 m² (39.67 ha, 98.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballingarry electoral division: 579 people in 215 households; 83% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gortinarable, Kilcunnahin Beg, Quakerstown, Rossamine (Co. Offaly), Springpark
- Placenames
- Whitehall 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.