# Whitestown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Fhaoitigh Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,252,819 m² (125.28 ha, 309.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,396 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Donaghmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54673 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251361 - Centre: latitude 53.009905, longitude -6.656112 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Whitestown Upper, from 216 m² to 226,815 m² (22.68 ha, 56.05 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1258053: 226,815 m² (22.68 ha, 56.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258053.md - Parcel 1270568: 190,968 m² (19.1 ha, 47.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270568.md - Parcel 5533717: 151,514 m² (15.15 ha, 37.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533717.md - Parcel 1286542: 131,228 m² (13.12 ha, 32.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286542.md - Parcel 1248629: 114,163 m² (11.42 ha, 28.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248629.md - Parcel 1286541: 103,712 m² (10.37 ha, 25.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286541.md - Parcel 1270567: 94,663 m² (9.47 ha, 23.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270567.md - Parcel 5533702: 81,869 m² (8.19 ha, 20.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533702.md - Parcel 1274024: 32,460 m² (3.25 ha, 8.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274024.md - Parcel 1248630: 29,835 m² (2.98 ha, 7.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248630.md - Parcel 5516790: 14,422 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5516790.md - Parcel 2657081: 11,891 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657081.md - Parcel 5426192: 11,471 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5426192.md - Parcel 1298873: 8,538 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298873.md - Parcel 1267316: 8,081 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267316.md - Parcel 1267600: 4,711 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267600.md - Parcel 1286540: 4,036 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286540.md - Parcel 1280721: 3,983 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280721.md - Parcel 1281929: 3,925 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281929.md - Parcel 1282932: 3,738 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282932.md - Parcel 2673175: 3,325 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2673175.md - Parcel 1249165: 3,203 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249165.md - Parcel 2691934: 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2691934.md - Parcel 5677104: 2,666 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5677104.md - Parcel 1286539: 2,634 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286539.md - Parcel 1277322: 1,860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277322.md - Parcel 1248628: 1,649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248628.md - Parcel 1270566: 1,356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270566.md - Parcel 5245507: 1,036 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245507.md - Parcel 5677107: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5677107.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 9 Oct 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560807: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560807/0 - 1 Nov 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360389: Conditional. Permission. change of house type to that granted under planning ref 20/1100, new location of proposed garage and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360389/0 - 6 Jul 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360142: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360142/0 - 28 Jun 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360122: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360122/0 - 21 Jun 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360103: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360103/0 - 23 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360060: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360060/0 - 15 Feb 2021, Wicklow County Council 21133: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21133/0 - 1 Feb 2021, Wicklow County Council 2178: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2178/0 - 2 Nov 2020, Wicklow County Council 201100: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201100/0 - 4 Mar 2019, Wicklow County Council 19223: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19223/0 - 10 Jul 2017, Wicklow County Council 17826: Conditional. Permission. loose cattle / calf shed, rotary milking parlour and collection / handling yard, associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17826/0 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 Whitestown Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Whitestown Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Whitestown Upper. ## 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 Whitestown Upper, 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 Whitestown Upper. - 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/whitestown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitestown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitestown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Knockbawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockbawn-250943.md - Moanvawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/moanvawn.md - Raheen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheen-251147.md - Randalstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/randalstown.md - Whitestown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/whitestown-lower.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/whitestown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/whitestown-upper