Whitehills
Whitehills is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynure, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 63.2 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 3,982 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitehills, from 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 215,082 m² (21.51 ha, 53.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Whitehills 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
11 Feb 2026Conditional
provision of a new agricultural entrance including all associated site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660094
10 Feb 2026N/a
provision of a new agricultural entrance including all associated site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660087
28 Jan 2026Conditional
domestic garage and change of use, removal of condition 2(a) of previous grant of permission 98/8154 for dwellinghouse and septic tank at Whitehills, Grangecon, Co. Wicklow, which restricted its use as a dwelling by the applicant or to other persons primarily employed in agriculture or forestry in the vicinity or to such class of person as the planning authority may agree to in writing to use by all classes of persons
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660050
9 Oct 2025Conditional
planning permission is sought for the change of use (removal of condition 2 from planning number 98-8983) from restricted use as a dwelling by persons engaged in agriculture or forestry to use by all class of persons. Retention permission is sought for the construction of a stable for the use of a storage shed and all associated site works and services at Whitehills, Grangecon, Co. Wicklow
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560808
3 Oct 2025N/a
full planning permission and retention permission to my lands at Whitehills, Grangecon, Co. Wicklow. Planning permission is sought for the removal of condition 2(a) from planning number 98-8983, and retention permission is sought for the construction of a storage shed and all associated site works and services.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560791
15 Jul 2022Conditional
a stable barn incorporating 6 no. stables boxes & ancillary space for feed room, tack room, cloak room and fodder & bedding storage. A proposed manure holding slab with associated effluent holding tank, a covered sand arena 60m x 20m, on site rain water harvesting tank, storm water soakways and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22787
7 Jul 2022N/a
a stable barn incorporating 6 no. stables boxes & ancillary space for feed room, tack room, cloak room and fodder & bedding storage. A proposed manure holding slab with associated effluent holding tank, a covered sand arena 60m x 20m, on site rain water harvesting tank, storm water soakways and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22759
1 Jul 2021Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 3 of planning reg. ref. 99/300) from restricted use as a stud farm complex, dwelling house and staff cottage to use by all class of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21776
26 May 2020Conditional
bungalow with a storey and half dormer element, inclusive of 3 no rooflights to front, 2 no dormer windows to front, 1 no dormer window to rear, a separate garage, a new vehicular entrance, a new well, a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20485
4 Oct 2019N/a
bungalow with a storey and half dormer element, inclusive of 6 no rooflights, a separate garage, vehicular entrance, well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191080
18 Jun 2019Conditional
new dwelling, garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19657
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 Whitehills.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehills.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitehills.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Whitehills, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Whitehills.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Whitehills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Whitehills
- Area
- 631,779 m² (63.18 ha, 156.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynure, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- The Grange, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycore, Ballynure Demesne, Knocknamuck Lower, Knocknamuck Upper, Portersize (Co. Kildare)
- Placenames
- Whitehills 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.