Milford
Milford is a townland in the civil parish of Aglishcloghane, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Áth an Mhuilinn.
Parcel 558024
- Area
- 41,382 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 857 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
- Milford
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Jul 2020Conditional
dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, entrance/driveway, and boundaries in revised location from that as previously granted ref. 04/51/0393
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20775
29 May 2020N/a
dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, entrance/driveway, and boundaries in revised location from that as previously granted ref. 04/51/0393
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20535
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 2 recorded monuments.
- TN007-080 Bee-boles
Description
Likely to be associated with the 17th-century phase of Milford House (TN007-081----), which projects to the rear of the late 18th-century block. There is a sunken walled garden (dims. c. 18m NNE-SSW; c. 14m WNW-ESE) c. 16m SSW of the house. Bee-boles are set into a purpose built walled structure (L 11.2m; total Wth 3m; rear wall Wth 0.54m; H at front 0.7m; H at rear 1.12m) which runs along the top of the sunken S wall (D 1.4m) of the garden. It is a free-standing structure, though it abuts the E wall of the sunken garden which continues southward, beyond the sunken garden. A ledge (Wth 1.7m) runs along the top of the S sunken garden wall in front of the bee-boles. There are a total of ten bee-holes built into the walled structure, with rectangular openings (H 0.41-0.51m; Wth 0.4m; D 0.17m) and rounded interiors (Wth 0.72m; D 0.5m; H 0.62m) with flat lintelled roofs. Each bee-bole would have housed one skep, probably constructed of coiled straw. Externally the bee-bole openings, which face NNE, are between 0.5m and 0.75m apart, with an average width of 0.61m apart. The bee-holes have a sloping roof of overlapping flat stones which projects slightly beyond the openings, providing the skep with extra shelter from rain. A length of walling (L 4m), towards the W end of the structure, is leaning forward (northward). A small buttress has been constructed near the W end in an attempt to halt its collapse. These bee-boles have been dated to c. 1650 by Crane (1983, 308). See attached photographs: TN007-080----_01 S wall of sunken garden and bee-boles from NNE TN007-080----_02 Sunken garden with bee-boles on top of S wall, from W TN007-080----_03 Bee-boles at E end of walled structure, from W TN007-080----_04 Interior of bee-bole TN007-080----_05 Rear of walled structure, from SW TN007-080----_06 Rear of walled structure, from SE, with 17th-century house in the background Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 August 2022
- TN007-081 House - 17th century
Description
The main, eastern block, of Milford House was built in the late 18th century, however, projecting from the rear is a rectangular block which appears to be an earlier house, with features which suggest a late 17th-century date. This earlier stone-built house (ext. dims. 9.48m NE-SW; 6.66m NW-SE) has been much modified with windows inserted and/or enlarged. The exterior has a heavy rough cast render over an earlier smoother lime plaster. There is a chimney stack on the W gable (wall T 1.25m) which was subsequently heightened, no doubt when the 18th-century block was added. The 17th-century house is currently entered through an inserted doorway at the S end of the W gable. The original doorway, now blocked up, appears to be roughly mid-way along the N wall. There is a ground-floor fireplace in the W gable, currently not in use, and a stone-lined wall oven immediately N of the fireplace. There was an angle fireplace in the NE angle at both ground and first-floor level, though it has been blocked up at ground-floor level and removed at first-floor level. There was probably a lateral chimney to service these fireplaces but it does not survive. The house has an A-frame roof with roughly hewn timbers, including one with a Roman numeral, XII, incised. A dormer window has been inserted in the N wall of the attic. Two other windows, one on either side of the internally projecting chimney breast, are likely to have been smaller originally. It is probable that the house originally extended further eastward, but that the E end was removed when the later block was added. There is a sunken walled garden c. 16m SSW of the house, the S wall of which contains bee-boles (TN007-080----) which appear to be contemporary with the 17th-century house. See attached photograhs: TN007-081----_01 Rear W elevation of 17th-century house and 18th-century block TN007-081----_02 W gable and S wall from SW TN007-081----_03 N wall of 17th-century house TN007-081----_04 Detail of render over limestone rubble on 17th-century house TN007-081----_05 Wall oven in W gable, ground floor of 17th-century house TN007-081----_06 A-framed timber roof looking W TN007-081----_07 Detail of roughly hewn roof timber with incised Roman numeral XII Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 August 2022
Architectural heritage
- Milford House, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey house over basement, built c.1790, having central pedimented breakfront with Venetian-style arrangement of openings to each floor. Two-storey off-centre addition to rear with attic and second single-storey lean-to addition also to rear of house. Hipped slate roof with carved limestone cornice and central rendered chimneystacks with carved limestone cornices. Pitched slate roof to addition with end chimneystack. Rendered walls with plinth having cut limestone coping. Square-headed openings to main block, having round-headed windows to upper floors of breakfront flanked by side lights. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, two-over-two and six-over-six pane to breakfront, replacement six-over-six pane to basement and replacement timber windows to second floor, all with stone sills. Some four-over-four pane timber sash windows to addition. Carved limestone doorcase with open-bed pediment with metopes and guttae supported on engaged columns and having timber panelled door in round-headed opening with cornice and ornate petal fanlight. Venetian-type arrangement of windows to upper floors of breakfront with round-headed windows flanked by very narrow side lights. Dormer windows to return. Timber panelled door in round-headed surround with fanlight in pedimented limestone doorcase with columns and approached by wide flight of limestone steps. Rear yard with stone outbuildings having slate roofs and enclosed by high stone wall with cut-stone gate piers with domed caps and with wrought-iron 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 37.2 ha
- 92 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 35,947 m² (3.59 ha, 8.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milford, from 636 m² to 162,910 m² (16.29 ha, 40.26 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 Milford 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
16 Feb 2026Conditional
1. existing agricultural shed, with underground effluent tank, grain silo, cattle crush and holding pens, conc yard; 2. existing domestic garage/store
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2624
15 Jul 2020Conditional
dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, entrance/driveway, and boundaries in revised location from that as previously granted ref. 04/51/0393
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20775
10 Jul 2020N/a
dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, entrance/driveway, and boundaries in revised location from that as previously granted ref. 04/51/0393
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20752
29 May 2020N/a
dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, entrance/driveway, and boundaries in revised location from that as previously granted ref. 04/51/0393
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20535
25 May 2020N/a
dwelling house, sewage treatment unit, percolation area, entrance/driveway and boundaries in revised location from that as granted under 04510393
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20511
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 Milford.
Recorded monuments
- TN007-080 Bee-boles
Description
Likely to be associated with the 17th-century phase of Milford House (TN007-081----), which projects to the rear of the late 18th-century block. There is a sunken walled garden (dims. c. 18m NNE-SSW; c. 14m WNW-ESE) c. 16m SSW of the house. Bee-boles are set into a purpose built walled structure (L 11.2m; total Wth 3m; rear wall Wth 0.54m; H at front 0.7m; H at rear 1.12m) which runs along the top of the sunken S wall (D 1.4m) of the garden. It is a free-standing structure, though it abuts the E wall of the sunken garden which continues southward, beyond the sunken garden. A ledge (Wth 1.7m) runs along the top of the S sunken garden wall in front of the bee-boles. There are a total of ten bee-holes built into the walled structure, with rectangular openings (H 0.41-0.51m; Wth 0.4m; D 0.17m) and rounded interiors (Wth 0.72m; D 0.5m; H 0.62m) with flat lintelled roofs. Each bee-bole would have housed one skep, probably constructed of coiled straw. Externally the bee-bole openings, which face NNE, are between 0.5m and 0.75m apart, with an average width of 0.61m apart. The bee-holes have a sloping roof of overlapping flat stones which projects slightly beyond the openings, providing the skep with extra shelter from rain. A length of walling (L 4m), towards the W end of the structure, is leaning forward (northward). A small buttress has been constructed near the W end in an attempt to halt its collapse. These bee-boles have been dated to c. 1650 by Crane (1983, 308). See attached photographs: TN007-080----_01 S wall of sunken garden and bee-boles from NNE TN007-080----_02 Sunken garden with bee-boles on top of S wall, from W TN007-080----_03 Bee-boles at E end of walled structure, from W TN007-080----_04 Interior of bee-bole TN007-080----_05 Rear of walled structure, from SW TN007-080----_06 Rear of walled structure, from SE, with 17th-century house in the background Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 August 2022
- TN007-081 House - 17th century
Description
The main, eastern block, of Milford House was built in the late 18th century, however, projecting from the rear is a rectangular block which appears to be an earlier house, with features which suggest a late 17th-century date. This earlier stone-built house (ext. dims. 9.48m NE-SW; 6.66m NW-SE) has been much modified with windows inserted and/or enlarged. The exterior has a heavy rough cast render over an earlier smoother lime plaster. There is a chimney stack on the W gable (wall T 1.25m) which was subsequently heightened, no doubt when the 18th-century block was added. The 17th-century house is currently entered through an inserted doorway at the S end of the W gable. The original doorway, now blocked up, appears to be roughly mid-way along the N wall. There is a ground-floor fireplace in the W gable, currently not in use, and a stone-lined wall oven immediately N of the fireplace. There was an angle fireplace in the NE angle at both ground and first-floor level, though it has been blocked up at ground-floor level and removed at first-floor level. There was probably a lateral chimney to service these fireplaces but it does not survive. The house has an A-frame roof with roughly hewn timbers, including one with a Roman numeral, XII, incised. A dormer window has been inserted in the N wall of the attic. Two other windows, one on either side of the internally projecting chimney breast, are likely to have been smaller originally. It is probable that the house originally extended further eastward, but that the E end was removed when the later block was added. There is a sunken walled garden c. 16m SSW of the house, the S wall of which contains bee-boles (TN007-080----) which appear to be contemporary with the 17th-century house. See attached photograhs: TN007-081----_01 Rear W elevation of 17th-century house and 18th-century block TN007-081----_02 W gable and S wall from SW TN007-081----_03 N wall of 17th-century house TN007-081----_04 Detail of render over limestone rubble on 17th-century house TN007-081----_05 Wall oven in W gable, ground floor of 17th-century house TN007-081----_06 A-framed timber roof looking W TN007-081----_07 Detail of roughly hewn roof timber with incised Roman numeral XII Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 August 2022
Architectural heritage
- Milford House, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey house over basement, built c.1790, having central pedimented breakfront with Venetian-style arrangement of openings to each floor. Two-storey off-centre addition to rear with attic and second single-storey lean-to addition also to rear of house. Hipped slate roof with carved limestone cornice and central rendered chimneystacks with carved limestone cornices. Pitched slate roof to addition with end chimneystack. Rendered walls with plinth having cut limestone coping. Square-headed openings to main block, having round-headed windows to upper floors of breakfront flanked by side lights. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, two-over-two and six-over-six pane to breakfront, replacement six-over-six pane to basement and replacement timber windows to second floor, all with stone sills. Some four-over-four pane timber sash windows to addition. Carved limestone doorcase with open-bed pediment with metopes and guttae supported on engaged columns and having timber panelled door in round-headed opening with cornice and ornate petal fanlight. Venetian-type arrangement of windows to upper floors of breakfront with round-headed windows flanked by very narrow side lights. Dormer windows to return. Timber panelled door in round-headed surround with fanlight in pedimented limestone doorcase with columns and approached by wide flight of limestone steps. Rear yard with stone outbuildings having slate roofs and enclosed by high stone wall with cut-stone gate piers with domed caps and with wrought-iron 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 Milford, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Milford.
- 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 Milford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Milford · Áth an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 372,128 m² (37.21 ha, 91.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglishcloghane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Aglishcloghane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 267 people lived in 107 households in the Aglishcloghane electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinruddery, Ballyspellane North, Cloonawillin, Gortnagrann, Lisheenboy
- Placenames
- Milford 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.