Milltown
Townland in the civil parish of Killann, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 47.7 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 18,386 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 2,152 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 196,990 m² (19.7 ha, 48.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for minor alterations to a dwelling house, domestic shed
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240558
26 Apr 2024N/a
Permission for minor alterations to a dwelling house, domestic shed, and carport
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240454
31 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic shed,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221156
28 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190087
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 Milltown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Milltown.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse house, extant 1840, on a U-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey lean-to central returns (north). Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof extending into lean-to slate roofs (north) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Milltown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 477,120 m² (47.71 ha, 117.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killann, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Killann, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killann electoral division: 1,041 people in 385 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garraun Upper, Glenglass, Grange Lower, Killann, Rathduff
- 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.