Milltown

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 174 m² to 379,120 m² (37.91 ha, 93.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.

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.

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  THE EXISTING HARD STANDING AREA ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING MAINTENANCE BUILDING AND PLANNING PERMISSION CONSISTING OF (A) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MAINTENANCE BUILDING FOR STORAGE OF ARTIC TRACTOR UNITS AND ALSO CONTAINING AN OFFICE, WCs, STAFF CANTEEN, STORE WITH FIRST FLOOR ADMIN STORAGE, (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING EXTERNAL CONCRETE HARD STANDING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM DRAINAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851085

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

• DG054-012 Enclosure
  Description

  An aerial photograph (St. Joseph AVR 55)indicates a circular cropmark c. 40m in diameter, here. There are two separated breaks (possibly entrances) to the E. The site which is located in good farmland was not inspected. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey with attic house, built c. 1900, on a rectangular plan with two pitched roof returns to rear. Pitched slate roof with timber fascia and bargeboards, grey clayware ridge tiles and centrally located smooth rendered chimneystacks with red clay pots, replacement guttering. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered banded and channelled quoins on a painted smooth rendered plinth to front and south gable, with painted smooth rendered band with pairs of decorative console brackets to front eaves. Roughcast rendered walls to north and west elevations. Segmental-headed window openings with smooth rendered lugged surrounds, reveals and painted sills containing two-over-two hornless timber sash windows; segmental and square-headed openings elsewhere with smooth rendered reveals and painted sills containing a variety of timber sash and replacement windows. Segmental-headed door opening with smooth rendered moulded pilasters and arch with keystone over, smooth rendered reveals, containing four-panelled timber door and glazed sidelights with timber console brackets and cornice over with tripartite glazed fanlight over. Set within own grounds accessed by pair of wrought-iron gates mounted on smooth rendered piers with pyramidal copings flanked by roughcast rendered stone walls to road. Single and two-storey outbuildings sited to south and south-west of house.

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

At the centre of the townland of Milltown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

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

Area

378,761 m² (37.88 ha, 93.59 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cottage, Gortree, Moneymore, Monfad

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.