Milestown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milestown, from 179 m² to 162,555 m² (16.26 ha, 40.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Jul 2020Refuse permission

  The construction of a new two storey dwelling (280m²), a garage (44m²)

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0346

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 the townland of Milestown.

Recorded monuments

• DU001-035 Quarry
  Description

  Quarry depicted as a kidney-shaped excavated area (approx. dims. 45m N-S x 40m E-W)  in a field immediately to the E of the Delvin River with access road running NE off the NW side of the quarry on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map.  Outlined as an irregular shaped area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map.  Depicted as an irregular shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S x 28m E-W) surrounded by tree plantation on the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Visible as a triangular-shaped tree plantation on the 2013-2018 MapGenie orthoimagery of the area.   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milestown.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Milestown, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Milestown.

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.

No address of the register names Milestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Milestown · Baile Mhílis

Area

390,261 m² (39.03 ha, 96.44 acres)

Civil parish

Balscaddan, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Balscadden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Rath, Sevenparks (1st Division), Stadalt (Co. Meath), Stamullin (Co. Meath), Tobertown

Placenames

Milestown 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.