Milltown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 146 m² to 242,777 m² (24.28 ha, 59.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  a single storey extension to rear & eastern side of 2-storey dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18666

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

• LI023-297 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 18m N of a townland boundary with Kildromin. A ring-barrow (LI023-298----) lies 9m to NW and an enclosure (LI023-299----) lies 70m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 194: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 13.5m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 September 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI023-298 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 25m N of a townland boundary with Kildromin. A ring-barrow (LI023-297----) lies 9m to SE and an enclosure (LI023-299----) lies 70m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 194: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 8m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 September 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI024-062 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, overlooking the Glenatrahaun Stream 50m to S which forms townland boundary with Ballyvouden and Dromin. The townland boundary with Ballynagally lies 270m to E. Aglishcormick graveyard (LI024-063001-) lies 660m to NE. No monument depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Milltown Abbey (Site of)’ on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible of 15th century Carmelite Friary also known as Ballinegall (Ballinagally) (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 291). In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that 'a spot of untilled ground surrounded by cultivated fields in the Townland of Milltown (Hib. Baile Mhuilinn) on the north side of the road from Kilteely to Limerick, is pointed out by people as the site of an old Abbey. I spoke to a man who remembered to have seen a portion of the walls standing, but not a vestige now remains. There are some very slight elevations in the ground, which may be the site of the foundations, but no measurement can now be taken. The walls of this Abbey fell upwards of forty years ago and the stones have been used in building the wall which separated its site from the road, as also in building several of the neighbouring houses' (OSL Aglishcormick Parish; O'Flanagan 1929, 42). The location of the abbey in the townland of Milltown was described by Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 291) as following; 'In 1459—60, when Thomas Wallse was provincial, Kennedy Macbriayn and Torieleus, brothers, and James Deles, donsels of the dioceses of Emly and Limerick, had recently given to Donald Ygormellay and William de Burgo, Carmelite friars, a place called villa molendini (editor identifies as Milltown in Aglishcormick parish, dioc[ese]. Emly), so that a monastery should be built; Donald and William had accepted, lived there and celebrated Masses without licence, but they had left when excommunicated by the ordinary and had appealed to the pope, who ordered the abp. of Cashel to examine the case and, if he found fit, to issue a licence for the building of a proper monastery: CPR. The townlands of Milltown and Ballinegaul (Ballinegallal) are adjoining and the friary appears sometimes under one name and sometimes under the other, so that it has been confused with the Dominican Ballinegaul, several miles to the south in the dioc[ese]. of Limerick'. In 1556—7 Donough O'Dangane was prior of Ballinegall and he was found to be seized of a 2-acre site of the friary and church, a water-mill and 10 acres of land, val. 10s. 4d.: This must refer to the Carmelite friary as the Dominican Ballinegaul, being a small dependency of Kilmallock, would not have a prior (ibid.). In 1826 the following account was given about this Carmelite Friary; 'Ballynegall, situated in the same vicinity, was once a town of some importance, and was built by the English. The family of Roche founded a monastery here in the 14th century; and Queen Elizabeth in her 39th year granted the same (which in the patent is expressly called a Carmelite Friary) with half a carucate of land belonging thereto, to the University of Dublin. Donogh O'Donegane was the last Prior of this house' (Fitzgerald and McGregor 1826, 344). According to Begley (1906, 355) the monastic foundation at Ballinagall was 'a Dominican Priory. However, in the State Papers of Edward VI (1551-2) it is described as the monastery of the White Friars of Ballinegaul, County Limerick, thereby implying that it was a Carmelite foundation, as White Friars was their usual designation. In Peyton's Survey of 1586 it is called the residence of the Braher duffe alias the Black Friars in Ballinegaul. According to this authority the site of the various buildings, which were entirely ruined, with certain gardens was estimated at half an acre; the other possessions in the vicinity amounted to a half quarter and two acres". The town and lands of Ballinegaul and the said house of fryers doe all lye waste." There is no obvious trace of a medieval friary visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. There is a raised area in the field 110m to NE which is visible on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13, this area which is partially defined by a linear earthwork could have been related to the monastic foundation. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 18 July 2020

• LI024-194 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying pasture cut by land drains and watercourses, 110m NE of a townland boundary with Kildromin. Ring-barrow (LI024-284----) and enclosure (LI024-285----) lie 55m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 2: AP 4/3632) in 1986. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 11m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Bruff aerial photo taken in 1986 numbered 2 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 October 2020

• LI024-284 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 90m NE of a townland boundary with Kildromin, which also marks a parish boundary with Kilteely. Within the NW quadrant of a rectangular-shaped enclosure (LI024-285----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 284: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 14m) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 284. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI024-285 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 90m NE of a townland boundary with Kildromin, which also marks a parish boundary with Kilteely. Ring-barrow (LI024-284----) lies within the NW quadrant. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a trapezoidal-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 285: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark (29m ENE-WSW; 22m NNW-SSE) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 285. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI024-286 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 70m NW of a townland boundary with Kildromin, which also marks a parish boundary with Kilteely. Ring-barrow (LI024-284----) and enclosure (LI024-285----) lie 80m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 286: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark (50m NW-SE; 48m NE-SW) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 286. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI024-301 Standing stone
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope, in improved pasture, 35m SE of a townland boundary with Ballyphilip. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a slender upright stone (H 1.55m) of sandstone which is roughly rectangular-shaped in plan (T 0.1m at base; T 0.08m at top; Wth 0.4m) and is orientated ENE-WSW on its long-axis . Top of stone appears to have broken off, as indicated by a clean fracture. Erosion around base of stone, probably caused by cattle using it as a scratching post. Monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 15 October 2020

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).

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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. Limerick.

Name

Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn

Area

606,634 m² (60.66 ha, 149.9 acres)

Civil parish

Aglishcormick, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagally, Ballyphilip, Ballyvouden, Kildromin

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.