Milestown
Townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Mhílis
- Area
- 39 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 4,018 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milestown, from 179 m² to 162,555 m² (16.26 ha, 40.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jul 2020Refuse permission
The construction of a new two storey dwelling (280m²), a garage (44m²)
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0346
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 Milestown.
Recorded monuments
- DU001-035 Quarry
Description
Quarry depicted as a kidney-shaped excavated area (approx. dims. 45m N-S x 40m E-W) in a field immediately to the E of the Delvin River with access road running NE off the NW side of the quarry on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. Outlined as an irregular shaped area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map. Depicted as an irregular shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S x 28m E-W) surrounded by tree plantation on the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Visible as a triangular-shaped tree plantation on the 2013-2018 MapGenie orthoimagery of the area. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milestown.
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 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Milestown.
- 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 Milestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Milestown · Baile Mhílis
- Area
- 390,261 m² (39.03 ha, 96.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balscaddan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balscadden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balscadden electoral division: 743 people in 229 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Rath, Sevenparks (1st Division), Stadalt (Co. Meath), Stamullin (Co. Meath), Tobertown
- Placenames
- Milestown 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.