Milestown

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milestown, from 45 m² to 128,022 m² (12.8 ha, 31.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 87 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of existing side annex and to build in its place an attached, ground floor, single story kitchen extension. Include for conversion of existing garage to a bedroom and mud room, with front facing double doors. Converted garage to be connected to main house, via new kitchen extension. Include also for Bio Disc/Klargestor waste water treatment unit, new fencing and other works, of a minor nature

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660352

• 25 May 2026N/a

  Permission for the demolition of existing side annex and to build in its place an attached, ground floor, single story kitchen extension. Include for conversion of existing garage to a bedroom and mud room, with front facing double doors. Converted garage to be connected to main house, via new kitchen extension. Include also for new fencing and other works of a minor nature

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660325

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retention planning permission for maintenance work shop, laboratory and offices, including planning permission for new vehicular entrance, alteration of site boundary and all associated site development works. *Further Information Received on 11/02/2026 - Updated WWTS*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560423

• 12 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for a new single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460788

• 24 Jan 2023N/a

  Permission for the conversion of the attic to a dormer roofed bedroom with ensuite, a small balcony and storage areas. To convert the existing garage to a utility room/WC and connect same to the main house via an attached flat roofed, single storey ground floor extension. To also include for a new rear shed/potting house, fornt side passage door, pergola, pation areas, revised drainage, internal modifications and other minor works, all at ground floor level

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2330

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  retention permission for a double sided totem advertising sign, double side advertising sign on the western side of the R132 and approximately 50m south west of the Connect Credit Union building, 2 no. advertising scroll signs on the upper front elevation of the Credit Union building, advertising sign in the front window of the Credit Union building, change of use of garden area to use as an enclosed yard and associated boundary walls, single storey portacabin extension to the existing Credit Union building and all associated site works **Significant further information received on 15.3.23**SPLIT DECISION: 1. To GRANT RETENTION PERMISSION for below: a. 2no. Advertising scroll signs on the upper front elevation of the Credit union building b. Change of use of garden area to use as an enclosed yard and associated boundary walls c. Upper floor area including roof lights 2. To REFUSE RETENTION PERMISSION for the following elements of development: a. Double-sided totem advertising sign b. Digital advertising sign in the front window of the Credit Union building c. Portacabin d. Double sided advertising sign on the western side of the R132 approximately 50m south-west of the Connect Credit Union building. **ABP SPLIT decision on 8th May 2024 see decision from ABP on idocs**

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22323

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission sought to demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house and detached garage, construct new rear extension to dwelling house and front porch, widen existing entrance gate and all associated site works *Significant Further Information submitted 20/01/21 provided for, inter alia, alterations to dwelling house, omission of front porch and omission of widening of existing entrance gate*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20769

• 12 Dec 2019Refused

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 191041

• 17 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission for demolition and clearance of the 2 no. existing buildings onsite, and all associated site development works including the erection of paladin type fencing and boundary planting to the Old Dublin Road (R132) frontage at a site formerly operated by Kilsaran Concrete bound by the R132 and local road known as Maine Way. There will be no change to the existing vehicular entrance onto road known as Maine Way.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19753

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  Permission for the demolition and clearance of the building known as The Crowing Cock public house (now closed), and all associated site development works and the erection of palisade type fencing to the Old Dublin Road (R132) frontage and the erection of an entrance gate (2.4m in height) to the existing entrance onto road known as Maine Way.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19363

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of front extension to dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1992

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  Development will consist of proposed new single-storey extension to rear, proposed alterations to front elevation including new porch entrance, re-roofing of existing dwelling, and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information submitted 23/10/2018*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18590

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 Milestown.

Recorded monuments

• LH015-011002 Font (present location)
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Two fonts of greenstone, said to be from a thatched chapel that formerly stood at Greenmount, were removed to the graveyard at St Mary's R.C.church, Kilsaran. One is a small octagonal vessel with a circular flat bottomed basin (H 0.23m, diam. of base 0.33m, T of rim 0.05m, D 0.15m). (For other see LH015-011005-).

• LH015-011003 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Armorial panel at gateway of graveyard (LH015-011004-), no longer visible. (CLAJ 1943, 207) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 31 May 2012

• LH015-011005 Font (present location)
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 31 May 2012 Two fonts of greenstone, said to be from a thatched chapel that formerly stood at Greenmount, were removed to the graveyard at St Mary's R.C.church, Kilsaran. One has a sub-rectangular base which splays gradually towards an octagonal rim with chamfered angles. The basin is circular and tapers down to a rounded bottom (H 0.40m, rim diam. 0.43 by 0.4m, W of rim 0.45m, D of basin 0.16m). (For other see LH015-011002-).

• LH015-049 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). It was first identified by Ivor Kenny. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 January, 2015

Architectural heritage

• Old School House, school, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height former school, built c. 1860, now in use as house. Rectangular-plan, lean-to extension to west c. 1890, single-storey flat-roofed extension to south overlapping extension to west; two-bay two-storey rendered hipped roof house projecting from north elevation of school, single-storey lean-to extension to west, entrance porch with single-pitch roof to east (front) elevation. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, artificial slate to house, clay ridge and hip tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack to north elevation of school, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystack to west elevation of house, half-round metal gutters on brick eaves corbel course to school, cast-iron downpipes, moulded uPVC gutters on painted brick eaves corbel course to house. Unpainted smooth rendered walling to school, round-headed blind recess to east elevation, rubble stone walling to part north elevation, painted roughcast rendered walling to east and north elevations of house, painted smooth rendered walling to porch. Round-headed window openings to south and east elevations of school, smooth rendered reveals, painted timber six-over-six horned sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings elsewhere, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two horned sliding sash windows. Square-headed entrance door to porch, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone plinth blocks, plain-glazed overlight, varnished timber panelled door with glazed lights. Set back from road in own grounds, wrought-iron entrance gate set in rubble stone boundary wall to east with roughly dressed copings.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870. Gable-fronted porch and half-dormers to east, lean-to extension to west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, moulded cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, square-profile cast-iron downpipes, decorative lugs, timber bargeboards to south gable, painted timber bargeboards to half-dormers. Red brick laid in English garden wall bond, smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed flat-arched window openings, tooled granite sills, uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening, timber vertically-sheeted door with plain-glazed overlight; painted timber porch, terracotta scalloped pitched roof, decorative painted timber bargeboard to gable. Fronting onto street, garden to rear (west).

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870. Gable-fronted porch and half-dormers to east. Pitched slate roof, red brick corbelled chimneystack, moulded cast-iron gutters on overhanging eaves, square-profiled downpipes; painted timber bargeboards to north gable and half-dormers. Red brick walling laid in English garden wall bond. Square-headed flat-arched window openings, granite sills, painted timber six-over-six timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, plain-glazed overlight; painted timber porch, terracotta scalloped pitched roof, decorative painted timber bargeboard to gable, concrete threshold. Fronting onto street, garden to rear (west), wrought-iron gate to north.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3071 (ZIP).

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.

• Milestown, Castlebellingham11 sales

Name

Milestown · Baile Mhílis

Area

1,428,529 m² (142.85 ha, 353 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsaran, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Castlebellingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlebellingham electoral division: 1,882 people in 704 households; 72% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlebellingham, Greenmount, Kilsaran, Maine

Placenames

Milestown 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.