Milltown
Milltown is a townland in the civil parish of Uregare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Mhuilinn.
Parcel 1674029
- Area
- 483,738 m² (48.37 ha, 119.53 acres)
- Buildings
- 13 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,981 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
- Milltown
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 7 recorded monuments.
- LI040-154001 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Potential small circular earthwork identified during examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1/10,000, 60) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage or on the Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and BGE 1:10,000 No. 60. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021
- LI040-154002 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed wet pasture, along entrance to Milltown House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible enclosure identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 60) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on the Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and BGE 1:10,000 No. 60. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021
- LI040-154003 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture, 170m S of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Kilballyowen and S of entranceway into Milltown House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible enclosure identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 42; AP 5/2069). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Linear cropmarks visible perpendicular to each represent drainage associated with land reclamation works. Faint trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 7m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021
- LI040-182 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In reclaimed pasture, 40m S of Morningstar River, Milltown House lies 40m to the S. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 43; AP 5/2069) as a ring-barrow. Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 43 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 May 2021
- LI040-184 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture, immediately W of a watercourse that forms the townland boundary with Milltown. Milltown House lies 240m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 46; AP 5/2069) as a possible enclosure. Possible earthwork visible as a scrub covered circular shaped area transected at N by a track running roughly NE-SW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. On Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 the ground has been excavated where the possible earthwork was located. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 46 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 May 2021
- LI040-252 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture, 100m W of a watercourse that forms the townland boundary with Milltown. Milltown House lies 190m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible enclosure by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 45; AP 5/2069). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 45 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 June 2021
- LI040-290 Enclosure
Description
Identified on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 40, Bruff 128: AP 5/2070). Described by Doody (2008, 138) as an 'oval enclosure, c. 45m x 30m, with possible internal bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 11 November 2013
Architectural heritage
- Milltown Park, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1830, with bowed west elevation, portico to front (south) elevation and four-bay two-storey return to west. Three-bay two-storey addition to north-east and two-bay single-storey lean-to addition to north. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves, having rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to three-bay two-storey addition. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills having replacement uPVC windows, some having six-over-six pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening to east elevation having timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed side-light window openings flanking door with replacement four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with moulded limestone surround, having timber panelled door. Cobweb fan-light above. Tooled limestone flat-roofed portico supported by four Doric tooled limestone columns, set on single limestone step. Square courtyard area to rear with ten-bay single-storey east range. Pitched slate roof with some terracotta ridge tiles. Coursed limestone and sandstone rubble walls. Segmental-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber framed windows. Segmental-arched door openings with red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors. Eight-bay north range comprising two-bay two-storey central block with two-bay single-storey block to east and four-bay single-storey block to west. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber framed multiple-pane windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch opening with timber battened double-leaf doors, opening into recent second courtyard. Seven-bay single-storey west range. Attached to rear projections of house. Coursed rubble boundary wall terminating in cast-iron gate-piers with knob finials. Cast-iron double-leaf gates.
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 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 48.3 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 483,738 m² (48.37 ha, 119.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Milltown, from 483,738 m² (48.37 ha, 119.53 acres) to 483,738 m² (48.37 ha, 119.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Milltown 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
No planning application touches the townland of Milltown 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.
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 Milltown.
Recorded monuments
- LI040-154001 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Potential small circular earthwork identified during examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1/10,000, 60) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage or on the Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and BGE 1:10,000 No. 60. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021
- LI040-154002 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed wet pasture, along entrance to Milltown House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible enclosure identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 60) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on the Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and BGE 1:10,000 No. 60. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021
- LI040-154003 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture, 170m S of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Kilballyowen and S of entranceway into Milltown House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible enclosure identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 42; AP 5/2069). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Linear cropmarks visible perpendicular to each represent drainage associated with land reclamation works. Faint trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 7m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021
- LI040-182 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In reclaimed pasture, 40m S of Morningstar River, Milltown House lies 40m to the S. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 43; AP 5/2069) as a ring-barrow. Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 43 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 May 2021
- LI040-252 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture, 100m W of a watercourse that forms the townland boundary with Milltown. Milltown House lies 190m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible enclosure by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 45; AP 5/2069). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 45 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 June 2021
- LI040-290 Enclosure
Description
Identified on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 40, Bruff 128: AP 5/2070). Described by Doody (2008, 138) as an 'oval enclosure, c. 45m x 30m, with possible internal bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 11 November 2013
Architectural heritage
- Milltown Park, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1830, with bowed west elevation, portico to front (south) elevation and four-bay two-storey return to west. Three-bay two-storey addition to north-east and two-bay single-storey lean-to addition to north. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves, having rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to three-bay two-storey addition. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills having replacement uPVC windows, some having six-over-six pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening to east elevation having timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed side-light window openings flanking door with replacement four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with moulded limestone surround, having timber panelled door. Cobweb fan-light above. Tooled limestone flat-roofed portico supported by four Doric tooled limestone columns, set on single limestone step. Square courtyard area to rear with ten-bay single-storey east range. Pitched slate roof with some terracotta ridge tiles. Coursed limestone and sandstone rubble walls. Segmental-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs and replacement timber framed windows. Segmental-arched door openings with red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors. Eight-bay north range comprising two-bay two-storey central block with two-bay single-storey block to east and four-bay single-storey block to west. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber framed multiple-pane windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch opening with timber battened double-leaf doors, opening into recent second courtyard. Seven-bay single-storey west range. Attached to rear projections of house. Coursed rubble boundary wall terminating in cast-iron gate-piers with knob finials. Cast-iron double-leaf gates.
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 Milltown, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Milltown.
- 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 Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 483,444 m² (48.34 ha, 119.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Uregare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Uregare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 654 people lived in 223 households in the Uregare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvulhane, Kyle, Meadagh, Milltown
- Placenames
- Milltown 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.