# Whiterock, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Carraig Caltair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,710,723 m² (171.07 ha, 422.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,476 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilcommon-shillelagh-ra.md - Barony: Ballinacor South - Electoral division: Tinahely, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,634 people lived in 613 households in the Tinahely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55946 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251359 - Centre: latitude 52.831281, longitude -6.51627 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whiterock, from 79 m² to 809,026 m² (80.9 ha, 199.91 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1281461: 809,026 m² (80.9 ha, 199.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281461.md - Parcel 1283069: 174,647 m² (17.46 ha, 43.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283069.md - Parcel 1255863: 130,390 m² (13.04 ha, 32.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255863.md - Parcel 1274735: 127,460 m² (12.75 ha, 31.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274735.md - Parcel 1274737: 62,984 m² (6.3 ha, 15.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274737.md - Parcel 1281369: 48,065 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281369.md - Parcel 1277201: 44,674 m² (4.47 ha, 11.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277201.md - Parcel 1285523: 44,598 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285523.md - Parcel 4683307: 34,389 m² (3.44 ha, 8.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683307.md - Parcel 6013337: 34,064 m² (3.41 ha, 8.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6013337.md - Parcel 1273108: 28,138 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273108.md - Parcel 1281556: 24,801 m² (2.48 ha, 6.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281556.md - Parcel 1279186: 24,700 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279186.md - Parcel 3462376: 23,786 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462376.md - Parcel 1281462: 22,762 m² (2.28 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281462.md - Parcel 1274836: 20,190 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274836.md - Parcel 3462383: 16,860 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462383.md - Parcel 1289387: 6,498 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289387.md - Parcel 1276115: 5,994 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276115.md - Parcel 2675467: 5,505 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675467.md - Parcel 1249740: 4,948 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249740.md - Parcel 2655904: 4,736 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655904.md - Parcel 3325258: 3,827 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3325258.md - Parcel 1280785: 1,955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280785.md - Parcel 1260243: 1,934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260243.md - Parcel 5203095: 1,690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5203095.md - Parcel 1274736: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274736.md - Parcel 1282502: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282502.md - Parcel 3325297: 444 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3325297.md - Parcel 1281902: 79 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281902.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Whiterock 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 11 Nov 2025, Carlow County Council 2560360: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560360/0 - 11 Aug 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560621: Conditional. Retention. permission for retention of dwelling house and domestic store as constructed on site and permission to upgrade existing sewerage facilities and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560621/0 - 19 Dec 2024, Carlow County Council 2460417: Refused. Permission. to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460417/0 - 7 Oct 2022, Carlow County Council 22339: Refused. Permission. to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22339/0 - 11 Aug 2020, Wicklow County Council 20774: N/a. Permission. single storey dwelling, garage, packaged wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, new entrance, landscaping and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20774/0 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 Whiterock. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whiterock. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whiterock. ## 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 Whiterock, about 1 in 5 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 Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/whiterock.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whiterock.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whiterock.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Whiterock 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) - Ballinagilky (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballinagilky.md - Ballynamanoge: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynamanoge.md - Cross: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cross.md - Mullannaskeagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mullannaskeagh.md - Mullans South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mullans-south.md - Redbog (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/redbog.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/whiterock - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/whiterock