# Milltown, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Shinrone, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,014,534 m² (101.45 ha, 250.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 177,117 m² (17.71 ha, 43.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Shinrone, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/shinrone.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Mountheaton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Mountheaton electoral division: 665 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41883 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180950 - Centre: latitude 52.967189, longitude -7.904716 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 14,627 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres) to 649,318 m² (64.93 ha, 160.45 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 303151: 649,318 m² (64.93 ha, 160.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303151.md - Parcel 293670: 307,873 m² (30.79 ha, 76.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293670.md - Parcel 307629: 46,361 m² (4.64 ha, 11.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307629.md - Parcel 4686169: 14,627 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4686169.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) 2 applications, newest first. - 1 Apr 2022, Offaly County Council 22160: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN OVERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TOWER, UNDERGROUND HOLDING TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22160/0 - 28 Jan 2022, Offaly County Council 2218: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN OVERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TOWER, UNDERGROUND HOLDING TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2218/0 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) - OF042-048: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF042-048----. Mid 18th-century 3 storey L shaped house with a pedimented breakfront. Gibbsian doorcase and venetian window with oculus in pediment. (Garner 1985, 29) 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 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) - Milltown Park, country house, 1720–1760, Regional interest, registry number 14942007, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14942007. Detached T-plan five-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1740, with central pedimented breakfront and extensions to rear. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with ashlar limestone chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone front elevation with limestone cornice, plinth course and quoins. Roughcast rendered to side and rear elevations with limestone quoins. Venetian window to pedimented breakfront with continuous limestone sill and oculus to pediment. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to front elevation with tooled limestone Gibbsian surround with cornice, flanked by sidelights. Timber and glazed double doors and decorative fanlight. Door accessed up four limestone steps flanked by a plinth wall. Entrance to south of house with wrought-iron double gates flanked by limestone pier. Principal entrance to east of house with wrought-iron double gates supported by rendered piers and flanked by quadrant walls incorporating a cast-iron post box. Ruined gate lodge opposite entrance. - Milltown Park, farmyard complex, 1720–1760, Regional interest, registry number 14942033, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14942033. Farmyard complex to north-west of Milltown Park House, built c.1740, with random coursed walls, yellow brick reveals to openings and pitched and half-hipped roofs. Quadrangle accessed through carriage arch opening in south-facing range. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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 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/offaly/milltown-180950.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/milltown-180950.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/milltown-180950.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. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clyduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clyduff-180450.md - Keeloge: https://everytownland.com/offaly/keeloge-180767.md - Kilballyskea: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilballyskea.md - Rutland: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rutland.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/offaly/milltown-180950 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/milltown-180950