Milltown
Townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 96.8 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 5,793 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 255 m² to 256,359 m² (25.64 ha, 63.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Sept 2025N/a
construction of dwelling house, entrance, installation of on-site treatment plant and percolation area together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560950
20 Sept 2024Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank with propietry wastewater treatment system, front entrance, bored well as domestic wastewater supply and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24366
18 Aug 2023Conditional
the construction of a storey and a half style detached dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, septic tank with waste water treatment system, bored well as water supply, and all associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23415
10 Jan 2023Conditional
the construction of a four bedroom two storey dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system, domestic garage, front entrance, bored well as domestic water supply and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 235
19 Apr 2022N/a
the construction of a four bedroom two storey dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system, domestic garage, front entrance, bored well as domestic water supply and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22429
17 Jan 2022Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged waste water treatment system with soil filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2239
12 Oct 2021Conditional
construction of a four bedroom two storey dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system, domestic garage, front entrance, bored domestic water supply and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211422
29 Jul 2021Conditional
construction of a new farm entrance to replace existing entrance including walls, piers, gates and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211077
24 Jul 2020Conditional
Extension of Permission for planning reference 14/1141
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207018
1 May 2019Conditional
the construction of an extension onto an easy feed dairy unit consisting of a milking parlour, cubicles, slatted slurry storage and a silage base including all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19429
4 Sept 2018Conditional
decommissioning the existing septic tank and percolation system and install a packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18875
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 Milltown.
Recorded monuments
- LI029-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated by farm passage on NW side. Baulk of earth, bulldozed to make passageway, has been pushed back c. 6m over area of enclosure. A slurry pit borders passage on N side. Surviving sub-circular area (28m SW-NE) is defined by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth 0.8m) NNE->W. Scarp is stone-faced in manner of surrounding field boundaries. Interior has uneven surface covered by nettles and thistles. A marshy area adjoins base of scarp along SW arc. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milltown.
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 5 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 Milltown.
- 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 Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 967,618 m² (96.76 ha, 239.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Dromard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromard electoral division: 916 people in 300 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Adamswood, Ardnapreaghaun, Ballyea, Ballynaguila, Fihidy, Finniterstown, Kiltenan North, Kiltenan South
- 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.