Whitefield
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow
Parcel 1260751
- Area
- 33,403 m² (3.34 ha, 8.25 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Whitefield
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 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 on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 52.8 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 8,896 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
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 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Whitefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- 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.