Milltown Grange

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown Grange, from 332 m² to 486,883 m² (48.69 ha, 120.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Milltown Grange 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Milltown Grange in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Grange.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Milltown Grange.

Architectural heritage

• Grange House, country house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1830. Rectangular-plan, four-bay south elevation, flat-roofed central portico projecting from north elevation, flat-roofed basement extensions to west elevation, flat-roofed single-storey extension to east. M-profile hipped slate diminishing course roofs, roll-top clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, twin hipped roof dormers with slate cheeks to south elevation, moulded cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia on painted timber overhanging soffits, square-profile aluminium downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walling, splayed plinth string; painted smooth rendered walling to porch, blind square-headed recesses to east and west sides, pilasters with recessed panels surmounted by relief wreaths flanking Ionic columns carrying square-headed opening, plain frieze, moulded cornice, plain parapet, square-profile coping. Square-headed window openings; painted smooth rendered slightly projecting reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows; uPVC casements to dormers. Square-headed entrance door opening, flanking Doric pilasters, painted timber double doors each with two flush beaded panels below eight glazed panes; square-headed door opening to first floor balcony on portico, painted smooth rendered slightly projecting reveals and soffits, painted timber double doors each with ten panes; metal-framed small-paned double doors to basement area, south elevation. Curtain wall glazing opening to balcony with glass balustrading to south elevation of extension. Gravel forecourt bounded by field railings to north with fields beyond; landscaped lawns to south; walled garden to south-west; courtyard to west bounded by rubble stone walls to north and south with C-plan two-storey west range, hipped slate roofs, bellcote to north, brick dressings to openings, lime-washed walling to courtyard side, rubble stone to west elevation, brickwork to south elevation, painted timber casement windows, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, painted timber glazed double doors opening to balconies on south (garden) elevation, central segmental-headed carriage arch; circular rubble stone gate piers with circular stone copings and wrought-iron gates to north side of courtyard; tennis courts to west of courtyard; main approach gravelled driveway from north-east.

• Grange House, gate lodge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1830. Recessed corners to west (main) elevation carried on posts, gabled wing to south, flat-roofed extension to internal corner between south wing and west elevation main block c. 1960. Hipped artificial slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron gutters on drive-in brackets. Painted roughcast rendered walling, slightly projecting painted smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, cast-iron casement window to west elevation with lattice panes, painted timber casements elsewhere. Square-headed entrance door opening in south elevation of flat-roofed extension, painted timber half-glazed panelled door. Set at main east entrance to Grange House, painted timber palisade boundary fencing and gates to north and west.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2995 (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.

No address of the register names Milltown Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Milltown Grange · Gráinseach Bhaile na Muileann

Area

975,517 m² (97.55 ha, 241.06 acres)

Civil parish

Dromiskin, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Dromiskin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromiskin electoral division: 2,364 people in 800 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuillenstown, Darver, Dellin, Milltown, Rossmakay, Walterstown

Placenames

Milltown Grange 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.