Millbrook
Townland in the civil parish of Ballykean, barony of Geashill, Co. Offaly; in Irish Móin Uí Dhuinn
- Area
- 45.8 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 673 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Millbrook, from 88 m² to 276,943 m² (27.69 ha, 68.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Nov 2023Conditional
extension to house, as constructed and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2360182
10 Mar 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. TWO STOREY DETACHED HOUSES, ACCESS ROAD, FOOTPATHS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 23100
25 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING PRIMARY SCHOOL CONSISTING OF 2 CLASS SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS UNIT INCLUDING REMEDIAL/DEMOLITION WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE LANDSCAPING, EXTERNAL PLAY AREAS AND ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22437
5 Aug 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING PRIMARY SCHOOL CONSISTING OF 2 CLASS SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS UNIT INCLUDING REMEDIAL WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE LANDSCAPING, EXTERNAL PLAY AREAS AND ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22389
13 Oct 2020Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20493
1 Oct 2020N/a
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20471
7 Aug 2020Refused
3 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES INCLUDING THE EXTENSION OF ROAD AND FOOTPATHS AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 20358
7 May 2020Conditional
A) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO FRONT OF THE EXISTING BUILDING, B) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BUILDING, C) ALTERATION AND REFURBISHMENTS TO THE EXISTING BUILDING, D) A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, E) NEW CAR PARKING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20166
28 Apr 2020N/a
A) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO FRONT OF THE EXISTING BUILDING, B) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BUILDING, C) ALTERATION AND REFURBISHMENTS TO THE EXISTING BUILDING, D) A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, E) NEW CARPARKING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20157
26 Mar 2020N/a
3 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES INCLUDING THE EXTENSION OF ROAD AND FOOTPATHS AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20108
29 Jun 2017Conditional
6 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES ON SITES NO. 4, 6, 10, 15, 19 AND 20 MILLBROOK GROVE
Permission, 6 homes · Offaly County Council, 17223
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Millbrook.
Recorded monuments
- OF025-017003 Religious house - Augustinian canons
Description
Associated with St. Sinchell who founded a monastery here in the sixth century. The church and convent marked on the OS 6-inch map are the same buildings which represent the remains of a large Franciscan Abbey formerly the site of an Augustinian Priory (OF025-017003-) which is today incorporated into a guest house (OF025-030----) and a C of I church. Site of Augustinian priory founded in the 12th-century later occupied by late 14th-century Franciscan foundation (OF025-017----) which would explain wide range of dates from the surviving architectural fragments. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF025-017008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Described by O. Davies in 1942 as a rath situated 'on limestone with generally good pasture. Restricted view. No fosse. The bank is 2 feet feet high outside and level inside. Centre level. Rath circ. 15 yds.' The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF025-017012 Mound
Description
Described by O. Davies in 1942 as 'On level open plain a steep-sided circular mound, total diam 7 yds, diam of flat top 3 yds. 2.5' high. No fosse, near by is a spring with channel from it.' (ITA Survey 1942). In 1975 this mound was re-classified as a crannog listed by an Foras Forbartha report on monuments of archaeological interest in Co. Offaly (1975, 41). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
- OF025-030 House - 17th century
Description
Late 17th/early 18th-century 3 storey gable ended house built over basement with slight base batter visible. Two small square shaped windows high up on gable give light to attic, wall thickness measures 0.75m. 19th-century addition to rear of house. (Garner 1985, 32) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Millbrook.
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
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Millbrook.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Millbrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Millbrook · Móin Uí Dhuinn
- Area
- 457,583 m² (45.76 ha, 113.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballykean, and its townlands
- Barony
- Geashill
- Electoral division
- Cappancur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappancur electoral division: 1,701 people in 573 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Millbrook 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.