# Milltown, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish Baile na Muileann.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,405,491 m² (140.55 ha, 347.3 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,899 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathaspick, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathaspick.md
- Barony: Ballyadams
- Electoral division: Ballylynan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28138
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100841
- Centre: latitude 52.939955, longitude -7.066814 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 550 m² to 369,818 m² (36.98 ha, 91.38 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 228058: 369,818 m² (36.98 ha, 91.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228058.md
- Parcel 357936: 159,541 m² (15.95 ha, 39.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357936.md
- Parcel 235771: 109,614 m² (10.96 ha, 27.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235771.md
- Parcel 235778: 98,958 m² (9.9 ha, 24.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235778.md
- Parcel 250583: 68,453 m² (6.85 ha, 16.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250583.md
- Parcel 265425: 54,886 m² (5.49 ha, 13.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265425.md
- Parcel 245700: 49,311 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245700.md
- Parcel 266894: 47,113 m² (4.71 ha, 11.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266894.md
- Parcel 250750: 44,839 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250750.md
- Parcel 235766: 38,267 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235766.md
- Parcel 250584: 34,839 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250584.md
- Parcel 250592: 34,355 m² (3.44 ha, 8.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250592.md
- Parcel 252548: 33,859 m² (3.39 ha, 8.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252548.md
- Parcel 358507: 33,447 m² (3.34 ha, 8.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/358507.md
- Parcel 263449: 28,741 m² (2.87 ha, 7.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263449.md
- Parcel 263685: 22,537 m² (2.25 ha, 5.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263685.md
- Parcel 2452625: 22,517 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2452625.md
- Parcel 245127: 20,005 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245127.md
- Parcel 237802: 19,687 m² (1.97 ha, 4.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237802.md
- Parcel 235767: 13,057 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235767.md
- Parcel 235769: 9,074 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235769.md
- Parcel 250587: 8,688 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250587.md
- Parcel 2951207: 7,899 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2951207.md
- Parcel 235770: 7,421 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235770.md
- Parcel 250585: 6,559 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250585.md
- Parcel 5582921: 5,616 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5582921.md
- Parcel 227813: 5,141 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227813.md
- Parcel 260646: 5,075 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260646.md
- Parcel 4661654: 4,747 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661654.md
- Parcel 229134: 4,310 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229134.md
- Parcel 255845: 4,267 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255845.md
- Parcel 231600: 4,204 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231600.md
- Parcel 5582918: 3,490 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5582918.md
- Parcel 256050: 3,464 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256050.md
- Parcel 233216: 3,374 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233216.md
- Parcel 241200: 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241200.md
- Parcel 2951159: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2951159.md
- Parcel 251782: 2,041 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251782.md
- Parcel 2951142: 1,607 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2951142.md
- Parcel 268525: 1,237 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/268525.md
- Parcel 261259: 1,111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261259.md
- Parcel 250586: 914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/250586.md
- Parcel 2452623: 610 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2452623.md
- Parcel 235768: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/235768.md
- Parcel 257524: 550 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257524.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 4 Feb 2025, Laois County Council 2560050: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560050/0
- 7 Jan 2025, Laois County Council 2560002: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560002/0
- 22 Nov 2019, Laois County Council 19644: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19644/0
- 21 Nov 2019, Laois County Council 19641: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19641/0
- 20 Nov 2019, Laois County Council 19635: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct dwelling house extension and also remove part of front boundary fence for vehicle access. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19635/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Milltown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA025-020001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-020001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-020002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-066----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-067----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-068----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA025-071----. 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)

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Milltown House, house, 1810–1840, Regional interest, registry number 12802503, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LA&regno=12802503. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/milltown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/milltown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/milltown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballycorman: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycorman.md
- Boley: https://everytownland.com/laois/boley-100206.md
- Corbally: https://everytownland.com/laois/corbally-100437.md
- Inch: https://everytownland.com/laois/inch-100676.md
- Rahin: https://everytownland.com/laois/rahin.md
- Rathaspick: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathaspick.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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