Milestown
Milestown is a townland in the civil parish of Cloneen, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhílis.
Parcel 584131
- Area
- 81,802 m² (8.18 ha, 20.21 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 393 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
- Milestown
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 1 recorded monument.
- TS070-033 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture. No visible surface trace except slight depression in field. Indicated on latest edition OS six-inch map as circular area (map dims. 27m N-S; 25m E-W) with fosse at N. Enclosure (TS070-058----) located 400m to SSW. According to Cahill (1982) the monument had been levelled by 1982. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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 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
- 142.1 ha
- 351 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 4,013 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milestown, from 229 m² to 256,663 m² (25.67 ha, 63.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Milestown 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
28 Aug 2025N/a
new vehicular entrance to farm with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560840
8 Mar 2021Conditional
construction of an extension to existing dwellinghouse, install new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter along with all other ancillary site services
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21283
15 Feb 2021N/a
construction of an extension to existing dwellinghouse, install new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter along with all other ancillary site services
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21163
1 May 2019Conditional
construction of a two storey extension to the side of my existing dwelling and all associated site development works including minor modifications to the existing elevations
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600450
1 Jun 2018Conditional
the development of cattle house incorporating slurry storage tank with slats laid on also lie back area. Also retention permission for cattle house, and all associated works on our land
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600686
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
- TS070-033 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture. No visible surface trace except slight depression in field. Indicated on latest edition OS six-inch map as circular area (map dims. 27m N-S; 25m E-W) with fosse at N. Enclosure (TS070-058----) located 400m to SSW. According to Cahill (1982) the monument had been levelled by 1982. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS070-058 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, near top of E-facing slope. Remains of sub-circular area (dims. 24m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by levelled bank. Interior slopes down gently to E with prevalent slope and incorporated into rest of field as pasture. Field boundary shown on latest edition OS six-inch map abutting to S has been removed and a new field boundary is located c. 20m to N of monument. Enclosure depicted on OS six-inch map as sub-circular area (dims.) and visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in July 1989 (GB89.Z.30). Enclosure (TS070-059----) located 260m to SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS070-059 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on a SSW-facing slope. Remains of semi-circular area (dims. 24m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by levelled bank (Wth 10m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.55m) WSW-N-E. Truncated by road (long-axis WSW-ENE) to S. Interior tilts down gently to SSW and is incorporated into rest of field as pasture. Exterior fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.15m) NW-N-NE. Enclosure (TS070-058----) located 260m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS071-044 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture, in the N corner of a field. No visible surface trace. Identified by aerial photograph (CUCAP AVO 98, 16 July 1968) as semi-circular anomaly ENE-S-W, defined by field boundary to N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey former corn mill, built c. 1800, now disused, with three-storey gables, multiple-bay single-storey pitched slate addition to north-west gable and lean-to corrugated-iron extension to north-east. Pitched slate roofs. Coursed rubble limestone walls with roughly-dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed openings with some double six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, barred to ground floor and some with timber, some with roughly-dressed arched heads. Square-headed opening to ground floor with timber battened double doors.
- Melbourne Bridge, bridge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch road bridge over Anner River, built 1837. Roughly-dressed limestone walls and parapets with margined dressed limestone voussoirs to round arches, having V-cutwaters to north-east, downstream, elevation. Limestone plaque to south-east parapet elevation and snecked roughly-dressed abutments and approach walls.
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 Milestown, 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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Milestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Milestown · Baile Mhílis
- Area
- 1,420,588 m² (142.06 ha, 351.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloneen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Cloneen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 497 people lived in 166 households in the Cloneen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinard, Ballyhomuck, Bannixtown, Bawnmacshane, Cloran Old, Kilburry East, Kilburry West, Raheenroe
- 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.