Milmorane
Milmorane is a townland in the civil parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Mill Mearáin.
- Area
- 173.9 ha
- 430 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 5,362 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milmorane, from 44 m² to 659,580 m² (65.96 ha, 162.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Milmorane 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
30 Dec 2015Conditional permission
The proposed wind farm will comprise the provision of a total of 11 no. wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of up to 150m, upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, provision of a wind anemometry mast (height up to 100 metres), 2 no. borrow pits, underground electrical cabling, underground grid connection electrical cabling including all associated infrastructure, junction accommodation works for the proposed turbine delivery route and provision of a temporary roadway to facilitate turbine component deliveries, 1 no. electricity sub-station with control building and associated equipment, 1 no. construction compound, upgrading of the existing site access junctions, permanent signage, and all ancillary site works. The proposed development comprises the redesign of a wind farm at this location previously considered by Cork County Council and An Bord Pleanala under pl. ref: 11/5245, and PL 04.240801 respectively.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6966
9 Jul 2010Conditional
Construction of dwelling to include a ground floor garage and storage area for machinery for own private use, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5715
11 Jun 2010Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling to include ground floor garage and storage area for farm machinery and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5448
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Milmorane.
Recorded monuments
- CO081-007 Standing stone
Description
In level bogland. Stone (H 1.6m; 1.2m x 0.65m) is subrectangular in plan, leaning slightly to E; long axis NNE-SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milmorane.
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 Milmorane, 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 Milmorane.
- 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 Milmorane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Milmorane · Mill Mearáin
- Area
- 1,738,895 m² (173.89 ha, 429.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchigeelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Cleanrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 213 people lived in 80 households in the Cleanrath electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coomlibane, Derrineanig, Gortnamona, Rathgaskig, Turnaspidogy
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Milmorane 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.