Milltown

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 17 m² to 17,209 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.

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.

• 1 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561500

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING COMMERCIAL PREMISES ON CONVOY MAIN STREET TO 2 SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560850

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING MAIN SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351698

• 25 Sept 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO SEMI-DETATCHED DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING MAIN SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351429

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  (1) SOIL EXCAVATION WORKS AND STOCKPILING OF FILL MATERIALS WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE SITE AREA AND (2) TEMPORARY ACCESS ROADWAY AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CONTAINING 31 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS AS FOLLOWS: (A) 2 BLOCKS OF 10 TERRACED HOUSES, (B) 1 BLOCK OF 11 TERRACED HOUSES AND (C) DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNAL ACCESS ROADWAY, PEDESTRIAN FOOTPATHS, OPEN SPACE AND BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, CONNECTION TO ALL MAIN SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 31 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351123

• 2 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250359

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC UTILITIES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750769

• 10 May 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC UTILITIES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750703

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 Milltown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Milltown.

Architectural heritage

• The Old Railway Station, store/warehouse, goods shed, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former railway goods shed, built c. 1909, having two loading bays with rubble stone with cement coping to platform to the centre of the south elevation adjacent to former railway line. Originally built to serve the Strabane to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line, now out of use (railway line closed in 1960). Pitched natural slate roof having clay ridge tiles, wooden fascia boards, and with a brick chimneystack to the west end. Randomly coursed rubble stone walling with raised chamfered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Round-headed (to gable ends and to centre of the north elevation) and semi-circular window openings (to north and south elevations), now mostly blocked with timber and corrugated metal sheeting, having raised chamfered block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, sandstone sills, and remains of metal-framed multi-pane windows. Two central square-headed doorways/loading bays to the centre of the main elevations (north and south) having raised chamfered block-and-start surrounds, lintel lintels, and with remains of sliding door mechanisms over; doorways now mainly blocked. Set well back from road in own grounds to the east of the centre of Convoy. Former railway line adjacent to the south. Possible former railway station house, now altered, adjacent to the east.

• Convoy Enterprise Centre, mill (water), 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former woollen mills on complex irregular-plan, built 1883 and greatly extended in 1905 and 1911-12, having main eight-bay three-storey block with single-bay five-stage Italianate tower (on square-plan) offset to the north-west corner, two-bay two-storey double-height former boiler house attached to the north-east corner, multiple-bay double-pile two-storey block to the north, ten-bay two storey block to the west, and two-bay two-storey gable-fronted building to the north-east having three-bay two-storey block attached to the east elevation. Now in use as enterprise centre with various commercial, retail, craft premises and a café to site; various modern additions and alterations particularly to the south. Saw-tooth north-facing multi-pitched roofs to main mill building and extensions to the south having modern metal-clad covering and with glazed sections to a number of the north faces in places; pitched slate roofs to the majority of other structures to site; pyramidal natural slate roof to tower having bracketed ashlar eaves course and cornice. Red brick eaves course to former boiler house. Cement rendered walls to main mill building and to the majority of extensions and additions; rubble stone walls with flush red brick block-and-start quoins to the corners of two-storey building to the north-west and to former boiler house to the east of tower with rubble stone walls to gable-fronted building adjacent to the east; red brick construction to tower having flush ashlar or cement rendered stringcourses delineating stages, and with four-storey round-headed recesses to the centre of each face. Recessed text to the north face of tower below eaves level reading ‘Convoy Woollen Company Limited’. Square-headed windows to main mill building and to various extensions to the south having mainly multi-paned steel-framed windows with pivoting lights, some modern replacement window fittings. Round-headed window openings to tower having stone sills and replacement windows. Full-height round-headed window openings to former boiler house having red brick surrounds with red brick keystone detailing, and with replacement window fittings. Square-headed window openings to the block to the north-east and to the gable-fronted building having red brick surrounds and replacement windows. Mainly square-headed window openings to blocks to the north and the west having replacement window fittings. Square- and shallow segmental-headed doorways to site having mainly modern fittings; square- and segmental-headed carriage-arches and loading bays to site having some remaining timber doors and double doors, replacement fittings elsewhere. Red brick surrounds to some door and carriage-arch openings to rubble stone buildings. Shallow segmental-headed former carriage-arch to the east face of main mill building having sliding timber door with surviving iron/steel wheels and mechanism. Detached nine-bay two-storey former wool store to the east, now in use as a retail outlet and café, having pitched slate roof with projecting red brick eaves course, red brick walls (English Garden Bond), and shallow segmental-headed window and door openings with replacement fittings. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the south-east of the centre of Convoy and on the north bank of the Deele River. Tarmacadam car parks and yards to site. Plinth wall to the north of site having iron railings over with spear finials over; vehicular gateway to the north having a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts with moulded detailing, acorn finials over, and with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates. Other wrought-iron gates to site. Enclosure to the north-west with mature trees bounded by iron railings having cast-iron finials and with moulded cast-iron posts at intervals along length.

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 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1792 (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.

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

Name

Milltown

Area

208,413 m² (20.84 ha, 51.5 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,559 people lived in 926 households in the Convoy electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Convoy Townparks, Findrum, Greenfield, Kiltole

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.