# Whitstone, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardcrony, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Fuitstiún. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 746,946 m² (74.69 ha, 184.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,972 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardcrony, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/ardcrony.md - Barony: Ormond Lower - Electoral division: Ballylusky, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45832 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 213150 - Centre: latitude 52.955471, longitude -8.171045 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitstone, from 68 m² to 419,660 m² (41.97 ha, 103.7 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 508562: 419,660 m² (41.97 ha, 103.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/508562.md - Parcel 558042: 313,526 m² (31.35 ha, 77.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/558042.md - Parcel 5993665: 5,464 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5993665.md - Parcel 569177: 4,481 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/569177.md - Parcel 564144: 4,408 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/564144.md - Parcel 573459: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/573459.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Whitstone in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Whitstone. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN010-054: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-054----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-055----. 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 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) - Whitstone House, house, 1785–1795, Regional interest, registry number 22401020, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22401020. 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. ## 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 Whitstone, 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 Whitstone. - 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/whitstone.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitstone.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitstone.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Whitstone 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) - Carneybeg: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/carneybeg.md - Derrynasling: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derrynasling.md - Ringroe: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ringroe.md - Willsborough: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/willsborough.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/whitstone - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/whitstone