Mill Land
Mill Land is a townland in the civil parish of Curraclone, barony of Stradbally, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Fearann an Mhuilinn.
- Area
- 21.5 ha
- 53 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 28,546 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mill Land, from 1,190 m² to 90,128 m² (9.01 ha, 22.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mill Land 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
2 May 2025Conditional
Construct a slatted livestock shed including an underground slurry storage tank, and all ancillary associated site works. The development is located within curtilage of protected structure number RPS 598. A NIS has been submitted on request of Section 177 T(5).
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560260
27 Dec 2018Conditional
construct an uncovered slatted tank and feeding area ancillary to an existing animal house, the retention and completion of a cattle holding area, and all ancillary works and services associated with both. The development is located within the curtilage of Protected Structure Number RPS 598.
Permission · Laois County Council, 18789
18 Dec 2018N/a
construct an uncovered slatted tank and feeding area ancillary to an existing animal house, the retention and completion of a cattle holding area, and all ancillary works and services associated with both
Permission · Laois County Council, 18762
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mill Land.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mill Land.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Mill Land, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mill Land.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mill Land with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Mill Land · Fearann an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 214,570 m² (21.46 ha, 53.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Curraclone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Stradbally
- Electoral division
- Curraclone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 269 people lived in 85 households in the Curraclone electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykilcavan, Blackford, Garrans, Inch, Monaferrick
- Placenames
- Mill Land 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.