Whitstone

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitstone, from 68 m² to 419,660 m² (41.97 ha, 103.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Whitstone 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 Whitstone 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 Whitstone.

Recorded monuments

• TN010-054 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on level poorly drained pasture. A low, elongated stony ridge, at least partly natural in origin, serves as a dump for field clearance debris. It measures 49m long (E-W) and is 10m wide. An orthostat, 1.5m high, stands about 10m from its eastern end. It is possible that this is the remnant of a megalithic tomb standing towards the eastern end of what may have been a long cairn. (De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 97, No.1; Manning 1983-4, 51) 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

• TN010-055 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on low-lying poorly drained land with possible megalithic tomb (TN010-054) to the W. Two poorly preserved fulachtaí fia consisting of burnt material spreads visible in the section of a modern drain. The first spread measures 18m N-S while the second spread measures 8m N-S. The burnt material is visible in both faces of the drain however there are no surface indications of this burnt material. 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

• Whitstone House, house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house over basement, dated 1790. Hipped slate roof with laterally placed rendered chimneystacks to rear. Recent single-storey addition to southwest. Pebble-dash render to walls. All windows replaced with timber casements with limestone sills retained, one inscribed 'Elias Bowler 1790'. Replacement glazed front door. Timber battened door with small overlight to rear elevation. Yard to rear having single and two-storey limestone outbuildings with pitched slate roofs. Walled garden to south adjoining yard.

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 Whitstone, 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

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

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

Name

Whitstone · Fuitstiún

Area

746,946 m² (74.69 ha, 184.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcrony, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Ballylusky, the unit of the census

Census 2022

365 people lived in 123 households in the Ballylusky electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carneybeg, Derrynasling, Ringroe, Willsborough

Placenames

Whitstone 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.