Milltown
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 80.7 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,369 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 402 m² to 204,899 m² (20.49 ha, 50.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
28 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing extensions to side and rear of existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250090
13 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221653
21 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190067
16 May 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160509
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- WX015-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in the flood-plain of the NE-SW River Bann with the stream c. 300m to the NW. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (52) 16-17). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May, 2012 Amended: 1 May, 2014
Architectural heritage
- Milltown Bridge, bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Four-arch road bridge over river, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north) elevation having overgrown pyramidal capping with rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of four segmental arches with lichen-spotted rubble stone voussoirs. Sited spanning River Bann with unkempt banks to river.
- Milltown House, farm house, 1730–1740 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1735, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Occupied 1911. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched fibre-cement slate roof (east) with clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on fine roughcast chevron- or saw tooth-detailed cornice. Fine roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite monolithic surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane fittings. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and picture railings below moulded plasterwork cornices to ceilings; drawing room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railing below plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (south) retaining carved timber lugged surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-veined grey marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below egg-and-dart-detailed plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped 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 high, 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
- 807,039 m² (80.7 ha, 199.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Ballymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymore electoral division: 516 people in 168 households; 94% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintore, Ballynakill, Effernoge, Ferns, Ferns Demesne, Ferns Lower, Forties
- 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.