Castlemiles
Castlemiles is a townland in the civil parish of Templemichael, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Caisleán Mhílis.
Parcel 1582510
- Area
- 2,777 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 75 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Castlemiles
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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_1653 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 107.3 ha
- 265 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,937 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemiles, from 97 m² to 312,454 m² (31.25 ha, 77.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Castlemiles 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
5 Sept 2025Conditional
to complete construction of existing dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works as previously granted planning permission under planning ref.: 19/859.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560622
9 May 2024Conditional
a Two storey Dwelling house, garage / storage building, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460245
1 Nov 2021Conditional
SECTION 254 LICENCE for 79 no. customer connection poles for upgrade/installation of Broadband Network (2021WD0534 / DA081)
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 211006
9 Oct 2020Conditional
for Planning Consequent on Grant of Outline Permission Ref. 20/348, for the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new roadside entrance, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at
Permission consequent, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20739
12 Jun 2020Conditional
for the construction of a spilt level single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new roadside entrance, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at
Outline permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20348
12 Nov 2019Conditional
to construct a new dwelling, garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19859
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 Castlemiles.
Recorded monuments
- WA037-021001 Moated site
Description
Located on a broad plateau. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 42.5m E-W; 41m N-S) defined by an eroded bank (Wth 6.5-8.5m; int. H 0.1-0.6m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m) with slightly raised corners at NE and NW, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 8-9m; Wth of base 3m-4.5; D 0.1m) at W and N. A wall (L 4.5m E-W; T 1.25m; H 1.5m) on the inner face of the bank at N, with a recess on the N side, may be the remains of a gateway or of a castle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011
- WA037-021002 Castle - unclassified
Description
Located on a broad plateau. Described as Castle Miles on the 1840 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map. A wall (L 4.5m E-W; T 1.25m; H 1.5m) on the inner face of the bank of moated site (WA037-021001-) at N, with a recess on the N side, may be the remains of a gateway or of a castle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 01 March 2012
- WA037-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated towards the top of the S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims. 45m E-W; 37.5m N-S) that slopes down severely to the S (H c. 2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.1m at S to 1.4m at N (upslope); ext. H 0.4m at N to 1m at S), which is reduced to a scarp SSE-WNW. There is an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at ENE, but there is no visible fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011
Architectural heritage
- Milestone/milepost, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron milestone, c.1850, on a triangular plan. Set in limewashed random rubble stone surround with rubble stone voussoirs.
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 Castlemiles, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlemiles.
- 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 Castlemiles with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Castlemiles · Caisleán Mhílis
- Area
- 1,073,039 m² (107.3 ha, 265.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Templemichael, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 465 people lived in 164 households in the Templemichael electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydasoon, Ballyglavin (Co. Cork), Bridgequarter, Cornaveigh (Co. Cork), Garryduff, Killea
- Placenames
- Castlemiles 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.