Whitestown Upper

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitestown Upper, from 216 m² to 226,815 m² (22.68 ha, 56.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Whitestown Upper 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for the following: 1. Agricultural building to include storage area, cubicle livestock housing and collecting yard along with slatted slurry storage tanks 2. Soiled water/parlour washings tank along with associated site works at Whitestown Upper, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560807

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  change of house type to that granted under planning ref 20/1100, new location of proposed garage and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360389

• 6 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of a 4.5m wide x 2.1m high (internal dimensions) with 250mm walls x 16m long precast concrete underpass to connect our lands and all associated pathways.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360142

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, upgrading of existing entrance to dwelling next door and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360122

• 21 Jun 2023N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, upgrading of existing entrance to dwelling next door and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360103

• 23 May 2023N/a

  the construction of a 4.5m wide x 2.1m high (internal dimensions) with 250mm walls x 16m long precast concrete underpass to connect our lands and all associated pathways

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360060

• 15 Feb 2021Conditional

  new dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21133

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  change of use (removal of condition 4(a) and 4(b) of Planning Register Reference 15/1004) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of person

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2178

• 2 Nov 2020Conditional

  new dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201100

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  change of use (removal of condition 2 of previous grant of permission (Planning Register Reference 09/270 for a dwelling house with first floor accommodation, envirocare sewerage treatment system and percolation area to EPA recommendations, domestic garage, entrance, bored well and all ancillary site works) which restricted its use to use as a dwelling by the applicant or to other persons primarily employed or engaged in agriculture in the vicinity or to such class of persons as the Planning Authority may agree to in writing

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19223

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  loose cattle / calf shed, rotary milking parlour and collection / handling yard, associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17826

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 Whitestown Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitestown Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Whitestown Upper, 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 Whitestown Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Whitestown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Whitestown Upper · Baile an Fhaoitigh Uachtarach

Area

1,252,819 m² (125.28 ha, 309.58 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Donaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

463 people lived in 148 households in the Donaghmore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockbawn, Moanvawn, Raheen, Randalstown, Whitestown Lower

Placenames

Whitestown Upper 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.