Whiterock North
Townland in the civil parish of Maudlintown, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Charraig Bhán Thuaidh
- Area
- 10.6 ha
- 26 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,506 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whiterock North, from 34 m² to 26,276 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Whiterock North 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
22 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250902
27 Jul 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house all with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230861
12 May 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house all with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230518
27 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct an extention and asscoiated works to the existing storag
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211208
19 Jul 2021N/a
permission to construct an extentionand associated works to the existing storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211153
23 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200669
29 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN OFFICE EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190745
11 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & A DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171344
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 Whiterock North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whiterock North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whiterock North.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3021 (ZIP).
- 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 Whiterock North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Whiterock North · An Charraig Bhán Thuaidh
- Area
- 105,671 m² (10.57 ha, 26.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Maudlintown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Wexford Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wexford Rural electoral division: 14,194 people in 5,189 households; 64% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagee, Pembrokestown, Slipperygreen, Whitemill South, Whiterock South
- Placenames
- Whiterock North 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.