Whitewell

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitewell, from 38 m² to 647,737 m² (64.77 ha, 160.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Whitewell 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.

• 13 Apr 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660173

• 22 Dec 2025Refused

  to construct one number detached dwelling, one number detached garage, to convert and upgrade existing family entrance to public road, previously granted planning permission under planning file number 92/538, to a dual entrance with shared access. Permission is also sought to connect to public watermain, to install a pumped mini treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560642

• 11 Mar 2025N/a

  development which will consist of a 100.8 sqm single-storey extension to the existing 55.8 sqm dwelling, the construction of a 12m x 8m steel shed with a height of 4.5m at the rear and 4m at the front, the provision of a new entrance to the site from the northern boundary along the R400 road, the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560101

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of a domestic garage and single storey extension to the south west facing gable of existing dwelling together with permission for alterations to existing dwelling that include the following; replace existing flat roof with a new "A framed roof", construct a front porch and alter existing window openings. Permission is also sought to relocate existing site entrance and decommission existing septic tank and replace same with the installation of a treatment system and associated soil polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186385

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 Whitewell.

Recorded monuments

• WM033-008 Church
  Description

  The church of Kilbride also known as Kilbride-Veston is depicted on the 1656 Down Survey parish map of Kilbride (NLI p.7384) where it is shown standing on the lands of Richard Tyrell of Kilbride Castle (WM033-010----). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map states that in this townland stands 'a Castle (WM033-010----) and a Church' (NLI p7384). This church is located in the parish of Kilbride-Veston or Kilbride-Vasty and today stands on the demesne lands of Dunboden Park. The church was described in 1837 as on the 'principal seats are Dunboden, the residence of R. W. Cooper, Esq., in whose fine demesne are the remains of the ancient parish church; the seat of A. Grose, Esq.; and Kilbride Castle (WM033-010----), of A. J. Wilkington, Esq., where are the remains of a strong hold of the Tyrrells. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, and in the patronage of the Gifford family, in whom the rectory is impropriate: the tithes amount to £78. 9. 11 ½., of which £52. 6. 8. is payable to the impropriators, and the remainder to the vicar' (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 56). This monument was inspected in 1980 and described as the ruins of a church standing in the centre of a subrectangular-shaped graveyard (WM033-008001-). The present ruins consist of a simple rectangular church (Dims. 13.5m E-W; 8.4m E-W), the walls of which are covered in ivy making detailed examination impossible. The N wall, S wall and the W gable survive upstanding. The remains of a narrow slit window can be seen in the W gable. No other architectural features are visible (SMR file). Kilbride Castle (WM033-010----) is located 315m to the S. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 July 2013

• WM033-008001 Graveyard
  Description

  This monument was inspected in 1980 and described as the ruins of a church (WM033-008----) standing in the centre of a subrectangular-shaped graveyard. The graveyard (dims. 40m N-S; 35m E-W) contains several 19th century tombstones and is now badly overgrown making detailed examination impossible. Cross-inscribed slab (WM033-008002-) located S of the church (WM033-008----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 July 2013

• WM033-008003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 12) who recorded that the boundary wall of the graveyard (WM033-008001-) represented the SE quadrant of a circular enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2015

• WM033-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The monument was inspected in 1976 and described as a ringfort situated on a low rise of ground in pasture with extensive views to E and S. Monument consists of a roughly circular area (diam. 40m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank with shallow fosse and poorly preserved outer bank. The fosse is visible from N-NE and from ENE – E- S –SSW. (SMR file). The outer bank is visible from N-NE and from ENE-E-S. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth. 2.2m) is visible at S. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 July 2013

• WM033-015 Well
  Description

  A wide shallow pool of clear water formed from a natural spring, used as a drinking place for livestock marks the site of the well depicted as 'White Well' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A stream runs S from the pool of water. No evidence of any votive offerings around the well or any evidence that the well was ever used as a site of pilgrimage. no evidence to suggest that this is the site of a holy well. Whitewell House located 155m to NNE and ringfort (WM033-013---) 150m to the W. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2013

• WM033-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise of ground with good views in all directions. Poorly preserved roughly circular area (diam. 26m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with external fosse which has been mainly filled in. No clear entrance feature visible. A large section of the enclosing element and the N quadrant of the interior has been quarried away. The scarp has been quarried out from NNE-E-SSE. Hachured as a circular enclosure on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, and as a partial enclosure on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25 inch map. On this later map the N enclosing element of the monument is no longer depicted. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitewell.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Whitewell.

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.

No address of the register names Whitewell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Whitewell

Area

1,633,935 m² (163.39 ha, 403.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Carrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrick electoral division: 348 people in 123 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beggstown, Clontytallon, Derry, Dunboden Demesne, Fearmore, Gibbonstown, Kilbride, Simonstown

Placenames

Whitewell 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.