Whitefield

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitefield, from 590 m² to 285,873 m² (28.59 ha, 70.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19562

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 Whitefield.

Recorded monuments

• WI038-016 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle to marked E-facing slope. Square enclosure (dims. 80m x 80m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m) with drystone facing of identical character to the surrounding field boundaries. There are only about twenty headstones, the earliest dating to the early 19th century. No indication of the 'R.C. Chapel' marked at the W on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI038-016001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a gentle to marked E-facing slope. Square enclosure (dims. 80m x 80m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m) with drystone facing of identical character to the surrounding field boundaries. There are only about twenty headstones, the earliest dating to the early 19th century. No indication of the 'R.C. Chapel' (WI038-016----) marked at the W on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 September 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Whitefield.

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 Whitefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Whitefield

Area

527,976 m² (52.8 ha, 130.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacor, Killaveny, Lugduff, Rosbane

Placenames

Whitefield 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.