Milltown

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 50 m² to 108,296 m² (10.83 ha, 26.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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.

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  for (1) RETENTION of existing shop/coffee kiosk (2) Planning PERMISSION for erection of new handball wall to form 2 no. handball courts and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560028

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  install flood lighting to existing carpark and walking track and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23109

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  for single storey extension to rear and conversion of existing outbuildings to a living room, multi sensory room and play room with associated ancillary works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 22405

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  to (A) construct a single storey extension to dormer bungalow comprising sitting room & porch with alterations to elevations and, (B) for RETENTION of detached domestic garage and associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21453

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Milltown.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with attached two-storey wing in two sections to south-west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, rendered brick chimneystacks at south gable and at ridge in central bay, cast-iron rainwater goods to front with uPVC to rear. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with render quoins. Two-over-two timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with fixed overlight. uPVC windows to west part of side wing. Yard to rear with rendered rubble stone outbuildings having corrugated metal roofs. Double-leaf corrugated-iron gates providing access to yard from side road.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1868, with advanced breakfront surmounted by bellcote, five-bay nave and side aisles, side entrance porches projecting from aisles, lower chancel with sacristy to north-east. Pitched slate roof, shallower lean-to roof in coloured bands up to eaves level over aisles, clay ridge tiles, exposed rafters at eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods on iron brackets over profiled yellow-brick eaves corbel courses. Gabled bellcote with metal finial, statue niche above chamfered bell opening, blind pointed arch below at apex of breakfront on profiled plinth and consoles. Squared random-coursed rock-faced limestone walls with dressed sandstone bands at sill and impost levels, dressed quoins, and bevelled plinth course. Breakfront to main elevation with stepped and weathered return faces and ashlar quoins. Rose window with carved stone tracery having trefoil detail, hood moulding over with relieving arch of coloured stone. Advanced gabled entrance portal with pointed arched tympanum on plain imposts and piers, flanked by small lancets with yellow brick jambs. Lancet windows to front ends of aisle walls. Yellow brick block-and-start window jambs, yellow sandstone relieving arches. Aisle windows as single and double lancets, windows in end bay adjoining chancel having twin-light plate tracery with quatrefoil and coloured relieving arch. Rose windows to east end of aisles with stone tracery of three trefoils and oculi. Chancel gable with triple graduated lancets, openings dressed in yellow brick, stone ogee arches and alternate coloured stone relieving arches. Buttressed stone chimney to north side of chancel gable. Sacristy with row of four pointed window openings, stone and brick dressing to doorway. Leaded obscure glazing, stained glass to chancel lancets. Timber sheeted doors. Faceted plaster ceiling compartmented by timber profiles, bays marked by arched timber trusses on colonettes and wall brackets. Profiled stucco nave arcade on cast-iron columns with capitals and bases on stone pedestals. Chancel arch and last nave arch on colonettes on moulded stone corbels. Steps to chancel. Lean-to side-aisle ceilings with pointed-arch trusses between bays on corbels. Projecting timber gallery resting on curved timber brackets on profiled stone corbels. Recent timber pews and confessionals. Recent projecting timber lobby below gallery. Stairs to gallery south of lobby with segmental arch opening and timber door, open arch to stairwell at gallery level under rose window. Entrance screen comprising decorative cast-iron railings set on stone plinth walls with concrete copings, flanking square-profile stone piers with stepped capping and cast-iron double gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.

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 20 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.

• Milltown, Belturbet5 sales

Name

Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn

Area

519,609 m² (51.96 ha, 128.4 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlane, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 404 people in 148 households; 87% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrygeeraghan, Drumgesh, Drumlane, Kilnacranagh, Money, Mullaghmeen

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.