# Whitehills, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynure, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 631,779 m² (63.18 ha, 156.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,982 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynure, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/ballynure.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: The Grange, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54981 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251358 - Centre: latitude 53.002561, longitude -6.770885 (WGS 84) ## 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); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1285197: 215,082 m² (21.51 ha, 53.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285197.md - Parcel 1249768: 191,396 m² (19.14 ha, 47.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249768.md - Parcel 1295661: 94,052 m² (9.41 ha, 23.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1295661.md - Parcel 2447267: 62,381 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2447267.md - Parcel 2724854: 22,379 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2724854.md - Parcel 1295707: 11,458 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1295707.md - Parcel 1263688: 7,163 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263688.md - Parcel 2853469: 3,989 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2853469.md - Parcel 5696434: 3,976 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5696434.md - Parcel 5628348: 3,644 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5628348.md - Parcel 1296195: 3,331 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296195.md - Parcel 1292366: 3,215 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292366.md - Parcel 2874834: 2,882 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2874834.md - Parcel 2853468: 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2853468.md - Parcel 1289335: 2,249 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289335.md - Parcel 1278485: 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278485.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 11 Feb 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660094: Conditional. Permission. provision of a new agricultural entrance including all associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660094/0 - 10 Feb 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660087: N/a. Permission. provision of a new agricultural entrance including all associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660087/0 - 28 Jan 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660050: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660050/0 - 9 Oct 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560808: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560808/0 - 3 Oct 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560791: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560791/0 - 15 Jul 2022, Wicklow County Council 22787: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22787/0 - 7 Jul 2022, Wicklow County Council 22759: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22759/0 - 1 Jul 2021, Wicklow County Council 21776: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21776/0 - 26 May 2020, Wicklow County Council 20485: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20485/0 - 4 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191080: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191080/0 - 18 Jun 2019, Wicklow County Council 19657: Conditional. Permission. new dwelling, garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19657/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Whitehills. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitehills. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitehills. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitehills.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitehills.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitehills.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycore.md - Ballynure Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynure-demesne.md - Knocknamuck Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knocknamuck-lower.md - Knocknamuck Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knocknamuck-upper.md - Portersize (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/portersize.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitehills - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/whitehills