Milltown
Milltown is a townland in the civil parish of Rathbarry, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Mhuilinn.
- Area
- 33.2 ha
- 82 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 1,715 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 63 m² to 54,386 m² (5.44 ha, 13.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Mar 2026Application withdrawn
Construct a dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0757
5 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Construct dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0236
24 Oct 2025Conditional permission
Demolish sections of an existing dwelling, alter sections of the existing dwelling and construct new extensions to the dwelling with associated landscaping and drainage
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6276
25 May 2022Conditional
Demolish existing extension to dwelling house, alter and extend dwelling house, move existing waste water system within the site and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/356
16 Feb 2018Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, studio space, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/82
21 Mar 2017Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/164
11 Oct 2016Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, domestic detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/624
5 Oct 2016Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/612
14 May 2009Conditional
Construction of residential development comprising 3no. one and half storey 4 bedroom detached dwellings and 4no. 2 storey 4 bedroom detached dwellings each with external storage, bored well and independent waste treatment unit with associated percolation areas, new junction with public road and access road, public lighting, connections to relevant public services, ancillary site works, a playground area within the public open space, new pedestrian link to the village, landscaping and external boundary treatments
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/560
28 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Construction of residential development comprising 3no. one and half storey 4 bedroom detached dwellings and 4no. 2 storey 4 bedroom detached dwellings each with external storage, bored well and independent waste treatment unit with associated percolation areas, new junction with public road and access road, public lighting, connections to relevant public services, ancillary site works, a playground area within the public open space, new pedestrian link to the village, landscaping and external boundary treatments
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/490
10 Jul 2008Withdrawn
Construction of residential development comprising of 3no. 1½ storey 4 bedroom detached dwellings and 6no. 2 storey 4 bedroom detached dwellings each with external storage, bored well and independent waste treatment unit with associated percolation areas; Create new junction with public road, new access road, associated roadways, connections to relevant public services, ancillary site works, landscaping and external boundary treatments
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1290
18 May 2007Refused
6.no Detached houses including all associated site works & new entrance from public road
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/1297
20 Apr 2007Incompleted application
6no. detached houses including all associated site works and new entrance from public road
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/1058
1 Aug 2006Withdrawn
9no. detached houses, new entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1500
11 May 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/833
20 Jul 2005Refused
Dwelling and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5184
18 Mar 2005Conditional
Retention of 2 no. domestic garages/outbuildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1645
30 Nov 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/8776
10 Oct 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5079
19 Nov 2002Conditional
Demolition of ruined dwelling & outbuildings & construction of new dwellinghouse & Puraflo sewage treatment system with detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5090
25 Feb 2002New application
Residential development - 40 no. dwellinghouses, garages sewage treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/776
24 Jan 2001Conditional
2 no. dwellinghouses & effluent treatment units
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/237
1 Dec 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7256
23 Dec 1999Refused
Residential development - 20 no. dwellinghouses & sewage treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/7162
2 Jul 1999Conditional
Demolition of ruined dwelling & outbuilding & construction of dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/3614
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilkeran Lake and Castlefreke Dunes SAC 001061
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilkeran Lake And Castlefreke Dunes 001061
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Milltown.
Architectural heritage
- Rathbarry House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey former rectory with gabled end-bays, built c.1830, now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and carved timber bargeboards. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows with small panes, set in pairs and fours. Outbuildings to site. Rubble stone boundary walls and gate piers with pair of wrought-iron gates.
- Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1820. Recent flat roof extensions to side (south-east) and rear (north-east). Pitched slate roofs having ashlar limestone chimneystacks, gable copings and uPVC rainwater goods. Timber bargeboards and finials to dormers. Ashlar limestone walls, having section of dressed rubble stone to plinth level. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, having tooled limestone label mouldings, dressed limestone voussoirs and surrounds, with uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with ashlar limestone surround and label moulding to front elevation, having uPVC door.
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1820. Recent lean-to extension to rear (north-east). Pitched slate roofs having ashlar limestone chimneystacks, gable copings and uPVC rainwater goods. Timber bargeboards and finials to dormers. Ashlar limestone walls, having section of dressed rubble stone to plinth level of front (south-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having tooled limestone label mouldings, voussoirs, surrounds and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with ashlar limestone surround and label moulding to front elevation having uPVC door.
- St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding T-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1832, comprising three-bay nave with two-bay transepts to sides (east, west). Later two-storey sacristy to rear (north). Pitched slate roofs with half hipped roof to chancel, having dressed limestone eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Dressed rubble stone bellcote to front (south) gable, having rendered gallery containing bell surmounted by pediment and limestone cross finial. Wrought-iron cruciform finials to transept gables. Roughcast rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Rubble stone walls with rubble stone buttresses throughout, having tooled limestone caps and chamfered limestone coping to buttresses. Wrought-iron cruciform finials to caps of corner buttresses. Roughcast rendered walls to sacristy. Square-headed window openings with render sills to side elevations of nave (east, west), transepts (north, south) and sacristy having dressed limestone voussoirs to nave and transepts. Replacement timber-framed bipartite windows having lead-lined stained glass panels to nave and transepts. Replacement three-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to sacristy. Pointed arch window openings with render sills to front elevations of nave (south) and transepts (east, west), having replacement timber-framed tripartite windows with intersecting timber tracery and lead-lined stained glass panels. Pointed arch door openings with dressed stone voussoirs to side (south) elevations of transepts, having replacement double-leaf timber battened doors and overlights. Kingpost truss timber roof to interior, springing from torus moulded timber cornice. Carved marble altar with moulded render reredos, having fluted torus moulded panels and raised surrounds with floral quatrefoil ornaments. Located within own grounds with rubble stone enclosing wall with render coping. Quadrant entrance to west with square-profile gate piers, having stepped render caps with wrought-iron cruciform finials and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Inscribed stone date plaque to northern pier.
- , 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former parish hall, built c.1825, later in use as house, now vacant. Pitched artificial slate roof with tooled limestone eaves course, tooled limestone chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Dressed rubble stone walls having tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having tooled limestone voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds and label mouldings. Replacement timber and uPVC casement windows throughout. Square-headed door opening to rear (south) elevation, having tooled limestone block-and-start surround and later concrete lintel to timber-panelled door with timber-framed side light. Former door opening to central bay of front elevation, now partially blocked and in use as window.
- Telephone box, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding square-profile moulded concrete telephone box, c.1950, now disused. Painted walls, moulded concrete cap and plinth, with fixed small pane glazed panels and glazed timber door.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Milltown, about 1 in 5 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 Milltown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 331,645 m² (33.16 ha, 81.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathbarry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Rathbarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 569 people lived in 220 households in the Rathbarry electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigfadeen, Carrigroe, Castlefreke, Castlefreke-Island, Garranecore, Kilkeran, Maulatrahane
- 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.