Millquarter

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Millquarter, from 104 m² to 672,925 m² (67.29 ha, 166.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Millquarter 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Refused

  Full planning permission to construct an overground slurry storage tank & all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260277

• 7 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for works to uprate the existing Great Island - Kellis 220kV

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241230

• 24 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Planning permission for the erection of a domestic storage shed and all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220844

• 4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, attached carport

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210875

• 26 May 2021N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, attached carport

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210819

• 6 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of an extension to an existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200894

• 31 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AS BUILT TO REAR OF HOME.

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191091

• 13 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ERECTION OF A DOMESTI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160662

• 25 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE, CHANGE OF

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160413

• 18 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A ROAD UNDERPASS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR AG

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160278

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 Millquarter.

Recorded monuments

• WX030-050 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1839 (ext. diam. c. 75-80m) and 1925 (ext. diam. c. 50m) eds of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a small NW-SE valley with the stream c. 80m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level in a root crop but it is visible as a bivallate cropmark (ext. diam. c. 50m) on aerial photographs (ASIAP (10) 22-26). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 August, 2012

• WX030-051 Slab-lined burial
  Description

  Located towards the bottom a an E-facing slope on a low NW-SE spur with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the E and a small NW-SE stream c. 240m to the S. A stone-lined cist (dims. c. 1.8m x 0.6m; D 0.6m) but apparently without any human remains or pottery was discovered in ploughing and reported to the National Museum of Ireland in 1934. A sherd of late Medieval pottery was recovered nearby, but the discovery was not investigated further. (SMR file; Cahill and Sikora, 2011, vol. 2, 457-8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

• WX030-053001 Church
  Description

  Located on a gentle W-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 300m to the W. The parish church of Old Ross dedicated to St. Mary is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE) defined by stone-faced earthen banks and hedges. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Archdeacon William Campyon was the rector, Jacob Prendergast was the priest, and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 270). The foundations of a wall (L 9.5m E-W; T 0.45m; max. H 0.7m) with a second wall (L 3.7m; T 0.5m) running N from its W end is just N of present Church of Ireland church, which was built after insurgents burnt the old church in 1798 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 533). There is a cross inscribed pillar (dims. 0.34m x 0.22m; H 0.9m) in the NE part of the graveyard. It has a cross on its SE face of single incised lines (H 0.45m; Wth 0.25m) with cross-bars on the terminals . The motte and bailey (WX030-052001-) and the castle site of Old Ross (WX030-052002-) are c. 450m to the NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 August, 2012 Amended: 2 Sep. 2013

• WX030-053002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a gentle W-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 300m to the W. The site of the parish church of Old Ross (WX030-053001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 60m NE-SW; c. 55m NW-SE) defined by stone-faced earthen banks and hedges. There is a cross inscribed pillar (WX030-053003-) in the NE part of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

• WX030-053003 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Located on a gentle W-facing slope. There is a cross-inscribed pillar (dims. 0.34m x 0.22m; H 0.9m) in the NE part of the graveyard (WX030-053002-) at Old Ross. On its SE face is a cross of single incised lines (H 0.45m; Wth 0.25m) with cross-bars on the terminals. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Church (Old Ross or Saint Mary's), church/chapel, 1795–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay double-height single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1800, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gables including lichen-covered cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (west) front with rendered gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Slate hung battered walls; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish to entrance (west) front. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing storm panel over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass panel. Pointed-arch window opening to entrance (west) front with timber Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet window opening (porch) with concealed dressings framing timber casement window having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled choir gallery (west) on a T-shaped plan, tessellated "quarry tile" central aisle between timber pews, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. ----; ----), Gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with trefoil-perforated Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, carpeted encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on Gothic-style timber altar table (1918) below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1919), and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled vaulted ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting wrought iron gate.

• Mill (water), 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey mill with half-attic, dated 1848, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1993. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with inscribed rough cut granite flush quoins to corners ("1848"). Square-headed window openings with rough hewn rubble stone lintels framing fixed-pane fittings behind wrought iron bars (ground floor) or louvered timber fittings (upper floors). Set in shared grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted shallow pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Millquarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Millquarter · Ceathrú an Mhuilinn

Area

2,613,646 m² (261.36 ha, 645.85 acres)

Civil parish

Oldross, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Old Ross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Old Ross electoral division: 498 people in 150 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabola, Begerin (Lloyd), Bushpark, Cushenstown, Dunanore or Goldentown, Heathpark, Moorfields, Springpark

Placenames

Millquarter 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.