Milcum
Milcum is a townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Ros na mBráthar.
- Area
- 35 ha
- 87 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,172 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milcum, from 78 m² to 87,766 m² (8.78 ha, 21.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 1 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Milcum 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
8 Sept 2025N/a
Construction of a private dwelling house and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560610
4 Mar 2024N/a
Construct a private dwelling house and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460097
10 Aug 2023Conditional
retention permission for revisions to elevations of dwelling previously granted permission ref. P16/962 together with ancillary site works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 23452
20 Mar 2020Refused
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20199
18 Oct 2019Conditional
RECONSTRUCTION, EXTENSION, ALTERATIONS, REPLACEMENT OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO EXISTING COTTAGE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19817
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
Recorded monuments
- MA067-038 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milcum.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Milcum, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_188 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Milcum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Milcum · Ros na mBráthar
- Area
- 350,210 m² (35.02 ha, 86.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Derryloughan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 771 people lived in 280 households in the Derryloughan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Teevmore
- Placenames
- Milcum 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.