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Milltown

Baile an Mhuilinn

A small excavation report distinguishes protected monuments from the ground tested nearby.

Watercolour and fine ink view across blue harbour water towards a low two-arched stone bridge, low shore buildings and green hills.
Illustration, Milltown Bridge and Dingle Harbour near Milltown, County Kerry, as photographed in October 2006
Recorded locationMilltown52.14210° N · 10.30091° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homesteadmuileannmill

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Baile an Mhuilinn · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Milltown · English · main form

Place & story

Five trenches in 2004

Archaeologist Isabel Bennett tested a proposed house site at Milltown in 2004, opening five trenches. The site lay at least 25 metres from a monument complex containing a standing stone, a pair of standing stones and a fallen stone bearing rock art. The trenches revealed nothing of archaeological significance. That result concerns the tested house plot; it does not establish the absence of archaeology elsewhere in the townland. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kerry
Civil parish
Dingle
Within
Dingle
Coordinates
52.14210, -10.30091
Mapped area
1.6 km²
Logainm ID
22627 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Milltown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. 2004:0742 Milltown, Dingle, licence04E1477 · Isabel Bennett; Excavations.ie, Wordwell Ltd.
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Milltown Bridge and Dingle Harbour, County Kerry illustration: based on a Milltown Bridge and Dingle Harbour by Nigel Cox. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.