Milltown

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 218 m² to 238,556 m² (23.86 ha, 58.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Milltown 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.

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  alterations and additions to an existing single storey house, demolition of an existing outbuilding, construction of a new single storey rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460170

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  to extend existing dwelling and associated alteration to elevations, connect to existing onsite services and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19340

• 7 Aug 2019N/a

  for a single storey extension (96 m2) to side of existing house

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19308

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a sheep shed with penning, a meal bin and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yard areas and handling yard). All for agricultural purposes only in a new farmyard area utilising existing road entrance

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19119

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of partial demolition of existing outbuildings and replacement with extension to existing dormer style farm cottage. The proposed development included new landscaping arrangements , some interior refurbishment and sundry other minor works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 17131

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 Milltown.

Recorded monuments

• CW017-017 Burial ground
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Disused and unenclosed graveyard visible as stony and uncultivated patch (dims. c. 5m x 7m). Small cairn of unknown antiquity, recorded by O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 245), is visible.

• CW017-018 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 According to O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 245) 'Brides Well', reputed to be 'holy'. Field now drained. Not located.

• CW017-019 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown as very small circular feature on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map. Described as small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by low bank, and similar to Ballon ring-barrow (CW013-074----). (Local information). No visible surface traces.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Milltown.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn

Area

1,628,701 m² (162.87 ha, 402.46 acres)

Civil parish

Barragh, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Shangarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shangarry electoral division: 568 people in 187 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeenan, Ballylower, Boggan, Cronaliegh, Knockbarragh, Knockdoorish, Sragh

Placenames

Milltown 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.