Milltown

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 550 m² to 369,818 m² (36.98 ha, 91.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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 Feb 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560050

• 7 Jan 2025N/a

  construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560002

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  level and raise the playing surface of existing football pitch and to include the importation of inert soil and stones (EXC class 17 05 04) to facilitate same development and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19644

• 21 Nov 2019N/a

  Permission to level and raise the playing surface of existing football pitch and to include the importation of inert soil and stones (EWC class 17 05 04) to facilitate same development and associated site work at Milltown, Ballylinan, Co. Laois

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19641

• 20 Nov 2019Conditional

  construct dwelling house extension and also remove part of front boundary fence for vehicle access

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19635

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

• LA025-020001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Marked on the Down Survey barony map. Known as Milltown Ballyvuilling castle. Situated in undulating countryside, in farmyard. It consisted of a square tower with levelled outworks and a modern dwelling-house built against it (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907 vol. 1, 302-03). A wall (L c. 29m, H c. 2.9m, wall T c.0.9m) built of roughly coursed rubble limestone, running NW to SE are the only remains. Described in the History of the Queens County as 'One square tower constitutes the principal remnant of this structure. Most of the outworks, consisting of walls and earthen mounds are now levelled. Stagnant fishponds occupy the site of its surrounding fosse. The building was placed by the side of a shallow rivulet, and it is well sheltered by hills in every direction, except towards the south. The situation of the castle seemed more calculated for domestic comfort, than for defensive warfare. A modern dwelling-house has been attached to it' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907 vol. 1, 303). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-020002 Bawn
  Description

  Described in 1907 as 'the ruins of a castle (LA025-020001-) also called Ballyvuilling which seems to have been of considerable antiquity; but its history is not known. One square tower constitutes the principal remnant of this structure. Most of the outworks, consisting of walls and earthen mounds, are now levelled. Stagnant fishponds occupy the site of its surrounding fosse. The building was placed by the side of a shallow rivulet, and it is well sheltered by hills in every direction, except towards the south. The situation of the castle seemed more calculated for domestic comfort, than for defensive warfare. A modern dwelling-house has been attached to it' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 303). Today there are no visible surface remains of these earthworks which appear to be the remains of a possible levelled bawn enclosing Milltown Castle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 09 December 2011

• LA025-066 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly square enclosure (dims. c. 42m E-W; c. 38m N-S on the E side, tapering to c. 34m on the W side) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The enclosure is indicated as a small field or haggard associated with a farm on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and subsequent revision. While the farmyard and all the immediately surrounding small fields have been levelled, only the square enclosure is clearly defined as a cropmark, suggesting it had a much deeper fosse. It is possible that this enclosure pre-dates the farmyard and in the 18th or 19th century was subsequently incorporated into it. See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 April 2019

• LA025-067 Enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of W half of enclosure (approx. diam. 38m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 September 2019

• LA025-068 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly D-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 37m) with annexe to NW visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 September 2019

• LA025-071 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a relatively level location (c. 95m OD) in a gently undulating landscape now characterised by tillage and pastoral farming, and on land that slopes very gently from NE-SW towards the Fuer River c. 730ms to SW. Sited towards the centre of a field currently in use for tillage purposes (Apple Maps; accessed July 2023). Located c. 720m NE of the remains of a castle (LA025-020001-) adjacent to a bridge over the Fuer River, and c. 1.4kms SW of a church (LA026-003----) and associated graveyard (LA026-003001-) sited at Rahin to the NW periphery of the village of Ballylynan. This enclosure is faintly visible as a cropmark on Apple Maps (accessed July 2023) and on Google Earth (June 2018) imagery of the area. It consists of an irregular oval feature (est. ext. dims c. 76.8m N-S x 42.5m E-W) that is defined by a ditch (est. Wth c. 2.4m) that can largely be traced along its entire circuit on the Apple Maps imagery (accessed July 2023). No definitive evidence for an entrance gap although the ditch is less clear to the centre of the E arc with a faint possible cropmark trackway running away from the site to the E. Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Uploaded on: 14/07/2023 See attached: LA025-071----_01 Apple Maps imagery (accessed July 2023) LA025-071----_02 Google Earth imagery (June 2018)

Architectural heritage

• Milltown House, house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey late-Georgian house, c. 1825, with two-storey return to rear. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding. Stable complex to rear.

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 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 Milltown.

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. Laois.

Name

Milltown · Baile na Muileann

Area

1,405,491 m² (140.55 ha, 347.3 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Ballylynan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,527 people lived in 521 households in the Ballylynan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycorman, Boley, Corbally, Inch, Rahin, Rathaspick

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.