Millhead
Townland in the civil parish of St. Margarets, barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Ceann an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 26.2 ha
- 65 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 22,212 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres)
- Zoning
- N1.3
- DA - Dublin Airport
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Millhead, from 815 m² to 68,347 m² (6.83 ha, 16.89 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
- N1.3DA - Dublin Airport (Airport)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 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
6 Feb 2025App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months
: In accordance with Section 34B of the Planning and Development Act,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0094E
20 Dec 2024Invalid application
In accordance with Section 34B of the Planning and Development Act, 20
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1178E
15 Dec 2023Sai consultees
The proposed development relates to the entirety of the Airport
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0781
21 Sept 2021Grant permission
A proposed development comprising the taking of a ‘relevant action’ on
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0668
5 Jul 2021Grant permission
The construction of three new vehicle new vehicle accesses and agricul
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0364
19 Jul 2019Grant permission
Amend the North Parallel Runway (North Runway)(permitted under FCC Reg
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0023
11 Jan 2017Grant extension of duration of perm.
To construct on airport lands, a runway, 3110m in length and 75m in wi
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F04A/1755/E1
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 Millhead.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Millhead.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Millhead.
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 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 Millhead.
- 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 Millhead with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Millhead · Ceann an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 262,361 m² (26.24 ha, 64.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Margarets, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolock
- Electoral division
- Dubber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dubber electoral division: 8,931 people in 2,882 households; 47% of households own their home; 89% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dunbro, Kilreesk, Kingstown, Sandyhill, St. Margaret's
- Placenames
- Millhead 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.