Milltown

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 44 m² to 328,209 m² (32.82 ha, 81.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Mar 2026N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED FOR THE HOBBY PURPOSES OF COLLECTING, STORING AND RE-CONDITIONING VINTAGE CARS AND INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660338

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560840

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  COVERED CAR PORT TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO INCLUDE 2 ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560745

• 2 May 2025N/a

  COVERED CAR PORT TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO INCLUDE 2 ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560702

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION AND ANCILLARY WORKS FOR: EXCAVATION AND MAKING GOOD OF EXISTING SLOPING EMBANKMENTS TO THE REAR OF THE BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RETAINING WALLS, STEPPED TERRACES AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE TO FACILITATE NEW DROP-OFF/PARKING COURTYARD WITH HARD LANDSCAPED SURFACES FOR 1 NO. REDUCED MOBILITY PARKING SPACE AND 1 NO. CAR PARKING SPACE, PEDESTRIAN ACCESS STEPS/RAMPS/PATHS TO REAR OF BUILDING, PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ACCESS GATES/PIERS TO SIDE LANE, RAILINGS AND SOFT LANDSCAPE TREATMENTS TO ALL ENCLOSING WALLS OF COURTYARD, NEW PERSONNEL ACCESS DOORWAY TO FACADE OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR, NEW ELECTRICAL AND TELECOMS SERVICES CONTROL PANELS WITHIN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND AT FIRST FLOOR OF EXISTING TWO STOREY BATHROOM/STORAGE EXTENSION, NEW PERSONNEL AND SECURITY ACCESS GATES/PIERS ADJOINING WEST GABLE END OF BUILDING FACING L1044 ROAD, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES WORKS INCLUDING DRAINAGE CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SURFACE WATER DRAINS, RELOCATION OF TELECOMS POLES/OVERHEAD LINES TO REAR OF HOUSE, PROVISION OF NEW UNDERGROUND LV ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND INTERNET CABLE DUCTS VIA THE EXISTING L1044 ROAD AND EXISTING SIDE LANE BOTH OF WHICH ARE PUBLIC ROADS, NEW ELECTRICAL METER CABINET AND MINI-PILLAR ENCLOSURES TO REAR FACADES, ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING DUCT INFRASTRUCTURE TO NEW PARKING SPACES, WALL MOUNTED LIGHTING AND SENSORS TO PROPOSED COURTYARD WALLS AND REAR FACADE OF EXISTING BUILDING, MAKING GOOD WORKS TO EXISTING SURFACE WATER, FOUL DRAINAGE AND ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051047

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050457

• 30 Dec 2019Conditional

  REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING PERMITTED 20M TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND ERECTION OF A NEW 30M MULTI-USER TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRYING 3NO. ANTENNAS AND 1 NO. COMMUNICATION DISH RELOCATED FROM THE REMOVED 20M TELECOMMUNCATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND 9NO. NEW ANTENNAS AND ASSOCIATED REMOTE RADIO UNITS, 3NO NEW COMMUNICATION DISHES AND 11 NO. NEW OUTDOOR CABINETS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL ENCLOSED WITHIN THE EXISTING PERMITTED SECURITY COMPOUND AND ACCESSD BY A NEW 2M ACCESS GATE TO REPLACE THE EXISTING PERMITTED 3.1M ACCESS GATE AT COILLTE FOREST, MILTOWN. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL PROVIDE VOICE AND MOBILE BROADBAND SERVICES IN THE AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1952039

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  CHUN AN TEACH ATÁ TÓGTHA GO PÁIRTEACH, A CHOINNEÁIL AGUS A CHRÍOCHNÚ AGUS CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA SÉARACHAIS A THÓGÁIL

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850639

• 16 Apr 2018N/a

  CHUN AN TEACH ATA TÓGTHA GO PÁIRTEACH, A CHOINEÁIL AGUS A CRIOCHNÚ AGUS CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA SÉARACHAIS A THÓGAIL

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850572

• 5 Jul 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE , DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751080

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods 002011

Recorded monuments

• DG060-016 Mill - corn
  Description

  This mill is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 639). Petty and Molls' 17th century map of Co. Donegal records the presence of a watermill at Newmills in 1683 and corn and flax mills have been located on this site since the early 19th century at least. This combination (i.e. corn and flax) is found mainly in Ulster where both types of mill were intimately linked to the surrounding farming economy. The mills were in the ownership of Josephy Hunter until 1861 when he sold them to John Devine. The complex was purchased from his son by Patrick Gallagher in 1892 who also bought a residence, public house, grocery and ancillary buildings, including a scutcher’s cottage; this was located in a field beside the mill pond. The complex also included a forge on the opposite side of the road as well as a sizable farm of land. The business at Newmills was continued by his son, P.F. Gallagher until his death in 1980. Extensive improvements to the corn mill were made around 1907 when the present waterwheel was inserted and improvements were also made to the machinery within the mill. During the Second World War, P.F. Gallagher took advantage of the revival of the flax industry when the British Government offered grants to increase the production of flax to guarantee the supply of linen for the war effort. He demolished a small single-storey flax mill in the early 1940s to make way for the relatively modern looking building. The public house and grocery were an important part of the whole enterprise and proved quite successful in the early years of the 20th century. Indeed, a lively export trade developed and when Sir Thomas Lipton started his grocery business in Glasgow, he received his first consignment of butter, bacon, eggs from Newmills. The importance of Newmills was recognised in a 1978 inventory of industrial archaeological monuments compiled by An Foras Forbatha which identified it as by far the best example of a mill complex in County Donegal. In 1986, the mills were purchased by the state for preservation as a national monument (No. 639). Under the direction of the Office of Public Works, a group of Irish and international volunteers restored the mills and millrace in 1989. The mill is a three-storey building and all the apparatus of the mill, stone, sieves, bucket elevators, fans and a sack hoist are powered by a 7.63 metre (25 ft) waterwheel manufactured by J.Stevenson's Strabane Foundry in 1867. Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 September 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1984).

Architectural heritage

• Newmills, mill (water), 1790–1810 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey former corn mill, built c. 1800, and extended c. 1870, having single-storey over basement coach house to the south-east end of the front elevation (south-west), and with external water wheel, c. 1907, attached to the south-east side elevation of main mill building. Possibly retaining fabric of earlier corn mill to site (see RMP DG060-016----). Restored c. 1990 and now in use as a mill museum. Pitched natural (purple) slate roof having terracotta and blue clay ridges tiles, raised rendered coping to north-west gable end, timber louvered vent to ridge having pyramid metal capping over, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with two red brick chimneystack. White washed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills, and painted timber lintels over, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways and loading bays with timber lintels, and battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage-arch to the south-west gable end of former coach house having timber lintel, and with battened timber double-doors. Timber post and beam structure internally with remains of machinery and millstones, sorting buckets, sieves, bucket elevators, fans and a sack hoist etc. Retaining wall to west and mill race with sluice gate to north-west of adjacent flax mill building (see 40829002) to south. Flagstone paving surrounding mill with gravelled area to south and mature trees to north and east. Attached breastshot water wheel to the south-west having metal spokes, buckets, and superstructure. Water wheel supplied by elevated timber headrace supported on timber brackets and operated by timber sluice mechanism. Tailrace discharges into River Swilly adjacent to the north. Gateway to the south-west comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• House, shop/retail outlet, store/warehouse, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay-two-storey (former) terrace of houses, shop(s), stores, and public house, built c. 1830 and extended c. 1860, comprising of end-of-terrace three-bay two-storey former house and former shop to the east, three-bay two-storey former public house to centre, and having pair of two-bay two-storey former houses and stores to the west end. Possible formerly in use as mill workers’ houses. Now out of use. Pitched natural (purple) slate roof with projecting eaves course, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods, red brick chimneystack to east gable end, smooth rendered chimneystacks to centre and pair of yellow brick chimneys to west end with rendered copings, and with remains of clay-ware pots. Whitewashed lime rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and some timber casement windows; fixed pane display windows at ground floor level to former shop and public house to east and centre of range. Square-headed doorways with battened timber doors and loading bays, and with some timber panelled doors. Road-fronted to the south-west of Newmills corn mill (see 40829001) and flax mill (40829002), and in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding/former smithy located a short distance to the west having pitched corrugated-metal roof with central chimneystack, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber fittings.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the east gable end. Recently restored but currently unoccupied. Possibly originally a flax scutcher’s cottage associated with Newmills flax mill (see 40829002). Pitched flax thatched roof with raised verges to gable ends (east and west), ridge, and with rubble stone chimneystack to the east gable end. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, timber lintels over, and with replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway having battened timber door. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding adjoining to east having pitched corrugated-metal roof, whitewashed rubble stone walls ,and square-headed doorway with battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to centre of field adjacent to the north of former mill pond associated with Newmills corn mill (see 40829001) and flax mill (see 40829002), and a short distance to the west of the mill complex. Garden to north of site, and approached from south via gravel laneway. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular plan) having hooped wrought-iron gate. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny. Stile adjacent to the west of gateway.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, 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. Donegal.

Name

Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn

Area

1,247,109 m² (124.71 ha, 308.17 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killymasny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killymasny electoral division: 512 people in 166 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardahee, Doon Glebe, Drumanaught, Kirkneedy, Roughan

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.