# Milltown, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ematris, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 772,554 m² (77.26 ha, 190.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,360 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ematris, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/ematris.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Lisnaveane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Lisnaveane electoral division: 435 people in 150 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40219 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171442 - Centre: latitude 54.1334, longitude -7.038987 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 382 m² to 194,940 m² (19.49 ha, 48.17 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 333430: 194,940 m² (19.49 ha, 48.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333430.md - Parcel 341877: 134,734 m² (13.47 ha, 33.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341877.md - Parcel 341876: 84,393 m² (8.44 ha, 20.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341876.md - Parcel 342228: 63,970 m² (6.4 ha, 15.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342228.md - Parcel 341882: 63,356 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341882.md - Parcel 341888: 57,918 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341888.md - Parcel 4646434: 46,588 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646434.md - Parcel 333521: 36,838 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333521.md - Parcel 330623: 35,345 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330623.md - Parcel 347994: 15,219 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347994.md - Parcel 3384351: 8,500 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384351.md - Parcel 4646422: 4,221 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646422.md - Parcel 4646421: 4,147 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646421.md - Parcel 4921935: 4,097 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4921935.md - Parcel 333423: 3,872 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333423.md - Parcel 325718: 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325718.md - Parcel 4646420: 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646420.md - Parcel 344460: 2,573 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344460.md - Parcel 334188: 1,856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334188.md - Parcel 4447843: 1,595 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4447843.md - Parcel 356803: 604 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/356803.md - Parcel 351243: 382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351243.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 17 Feb 2020, Monaghan County Council 209001: Conditional. Extension of duration. construct 2No. poultry units together with underground washings tanks, erect vertical meal bin, construct new nitrate storage store, develop new agricultural entrance together with all ancillary site works. The proposed development comprises or is for the purpose of an activity for which an Intergrated Pollution Prevention Control Licence is required. The Significantly Different Additional Information has been submitted to the planning authority and it relates to changes to the location of the proposed units and the entrance has been relocated. The Significantly Different Additional information is available for inspection or purchase at the offices of the authority during its normal opening hours.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/209001/0 - 12 Nov 2019, Monaghan County Council 19504: Refused. Retention, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of the retention permission for the existing metal shipping container with external alterations to provide residential accommodation incorporating living room/kitchen area/bathroom, bedroom/study, bedroom and circulation space. External works include new vehicular access, laneway, parking area, retention of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19504/0 - 16 Aug 2019, Monaghan County Council 19386: N/a. Retention, 1 home. permission to retain the existing metal shipping container with external alterations to provide residential accommodation incorporating living room/kitchen area/bathroom, bedroom/study, bedroom and circulation space. External works include new vehicular access, laneway, parking area, retention of existing waste water treatment system and provision of new percolation area.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19386/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Milltown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO018-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO018-034----. Located on one of the summits of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular domed area (diam. 36m NNE-SSW; 35m WNW-ESE) planted in coniferous trees which is defined by a re-shaped earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 1.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m), with a drain at its outer base WNW-N-ENE but there is no evidence of a fosse. The original entrance is probably the ramp (Wth of base 1.2m) at SE. There is a circular platform (diam. 12m N-S; 12m E-W) H 0.3m) at the centre that could be a hut-site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 18 June 2018 - MO018-034001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO018-034001-. Located on one of the summits of an E-W drumlin ridge and planted with coniferous trees. There is a circular platform (diam. 12m N-S; 12m E-W) H 0.3m) just W of the centre of rath (MO018-034----) that could be a hut-site. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 June 2018 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1830–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41401836, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401836. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1840, with windbreak to entrance, and modern extensions to rear. Hipped thatched roof, re-thatched c.2002 with wheaten straw, block ridge and red brick chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to rear extension. Mud walls, cement rendered c.2002, with curved walling to windbreak. Square-headed window openings, enlarged c.2002, with concrete sills, having replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening, with replacement timber door. Single-storey outbuilding extends to north-west from house, with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Located on roadside to north of Rockcorry. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/milltown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/milltown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/milltown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cornawall: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornawall-170506.md - Corragarry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corragarry-170517.md - Drumacreeve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumacreeve-170739.md - Drumloughlin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumloughlin.md - Drumsaul: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumsaul.md - Unshinagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/unshinagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/milltown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/milltown