Milltown South
Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn Theas
- Area
- 27.5 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 1,953 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown South, from 40 m² to 79,441 m² (7.94 ha, 19.63 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 South 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
2 Apr 2025Conditional
alterations and extension and associated site works to existing warehouse
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560240
15 Jun 2023Conditional
works to restore and extend an old mill building which was semi-derelict in 1990. The works consisted of restoring, repairing the stonework and the local brickwork, replacing the roof which was in danger of collapse, installing new windows, repairing and replacing timber floors, installing thermal insulation and plumbing and electrical services. Constructing a new spiral stair measuring 4.3m² in its footprint to provide access externally to the first floor and lower ground floor. All these works were completed in several phases between 1993 and 2001. This planning retention application is to retain the works completed on the whole restoration and repair and the construction of the new external spiral stairs. It is also to change the use of the former mill building to residential use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23538
25 May 2021N/a
new single storey side extension together with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21615
28 Oct 2020Conditional
proposed study cabin for use as a study and homework room, and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201090
9 Jul 2019Conditional
installation of 6 person wastewater system and 109 sqm soil polishing filter in accordance with EPA 2009 regulations, all necessary site works and ancillary works to facilitate the development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19732
1 Jul 2019N/a
installation of a 6 person wastewater and 108 sqm soil polishing filter in accordance with EPA 2009 regulations, all necessary site works and ancillary works to facilitate the development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19702
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 South.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Milltown South.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milltown South.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3372 (ZIP).
- 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 South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Milltown South · Baile an Mhuilinn Theas
- Area
- 275,464 m² (27.55 ha, 68.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Glenealy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenealy electoral division: 2,861 people in 1,004 households; 76% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybeg, Ballymerrigan, Ballynabarny, Milltown North
- Placenames
- Milltown South 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.