Millbrook
Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 16.9 ha
- 42 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,796 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Millbrook, from 664 m² to 56,968 m² (5.7 ha, 14.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Millbrook 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
9 Apr 2026Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DAMAGED DETACHED DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660595
18 Feb 2026Conditional
EXTENSION TO SINGLE STOREY SUN ROOM AND NEW ROOF STRUCTURE TO SUN ROOM TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660242
8 May 2025N/a
EXTENSION TO A SUNROOM AND ROOF STRUCTURE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560734
25 Nov 2024Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE AND GARAGE DESIGN CONSISTING OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART STOREY AND A HALF HOUSE DESIGN WITH SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING APPROVED SEWAGE SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50658 REFERS) INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461920
6 Dec 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351879
26 Jul 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF. NO: 18/51002
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351107
15 May 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MONO PITCH ROOFED CONTEMPORARY STYLE DWELLING CONSISTING OF PART SINGLE STOREY AND PART TWO STOREY, WITH PROVISION OF A FLAT ROOF CARPORT TO THE REAR, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED MONO PITCH ROOFED DOUBLE GARAGE, (4) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350658
11 May 2022Refused
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MONO PITCH ROOFED CONTEMPORARY STYLE DWELLING CONSISTING OF PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY WITH PARTIAL BASEMENT STORAGE UNDER PROVISION TO THE REAR OF A FLAT ROOF CARPORT LINKING A MONO PITCH ROOFED DOUBLE GARAGE (3) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES INCLUDING NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250818
20 Dec 2021Refused
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MONO PITCHED ROOFED CONTEMPORARY STYLE DWELLING CONSISTING OF PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY WITH PARTIAL BASEMENT STORAGE UNDER, PROVISION TO THE REAR OF A FLAT ROOF CARPORT LINKING A MONO PITCH ROOFED DOUBLE GARAGE (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152556
28 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150764
29 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE & SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851002
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: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Millbrook.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Millbrook.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1890 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Millbrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Millbrook
- Area
- 168,899 m² (16.89 ha, 41.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killygarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmullan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavannan Far, Carnafeagh, Crevary Upper, Rathmullan and Ballyboe
- Placenames
- Millbrook 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.