Milltown
Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 111 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 42,950 m² (4.29 ha, 10.61 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Open Space
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 1,106 m² to 306,691 m² (30.67 ha, 75.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Dunlavin Town Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jul 2026N/a
retention planning permission for an as constructed two-storey dwelling house and for 2 no. existing onsite sewerage treatment systems , Planning Permission sought for 2 no. new percolation areas to serve existing sewerage treatment systems and all ancillary site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660668
24 Jul 2025Conditional
173 sq m two-storey extension to 150 sq m dwelling house, and permission sought for new secondary sewerage treatment system and all ancillary site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560565
4 Jun 2025Conditional
single storey dwelling house, onsite secondary sewerage treatment system, new entrance on to public road, domestic garage, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560415
13 Sept 2021Conditional
(1) Demolition of existing lean-to agricultural building and silage pit retaining walls. (2) A geomembrane lined storage lagoon (including a leak detection manhole, agitation point, safety fencing and all ancillary works) for the storage of brewing and distilling wastes for recovery to agricultural land, tillage and grassland. (3) New recessed site entrance
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211123
9 Dec 2020Conditional
construct a new milking parlour, slatted unit with associated storage tanks, concrete apron, silage pit and storage tank, new farm entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201258
25 Nov 2020N/a
construct a new milking parlour, slatted unit with associated storage tanks, concrete apron, silage pit and storage tank, new farm entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201199
2 Oct 2020N/a
construct a new milking parlour, slatted unit with associated storage tanks, concrete apron, silage pit and storage tank, new farm entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20970
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milltown.
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. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 1,110,206 m² (111.02 ha, 274.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunlavin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Dunlavin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunlavin electoral division: 1,580 people in 526 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brewel East or Merville (Co. Kildare), Dunlavin Lower, Knockandort, Knocknagull, Rathbawn, Tornant Lower, Usk (Co. Kildare)
- 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.