Milltown () is a small town on the N70 national secondary road between the major towns of Tralee and Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. It is approximately from Killorglin. Prehistory In July 2015, a neothilic tomb at Killaclohane near Milltown was excavated and human remains were uncovered that could potentially be 6,000 years old. They are thought to have belonged to the earliest settlers in the south west of the country. History Between the 13th and 16th centuries, much of land surrounding Milltown was owned by the nearby Killagha Abbey, the ruins of which now stand one and a half miles outside the town. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the estates were granted to the Spring family and then, following the Irish Confederate Wars, to the Godfrey family. The modern day settlement at Milltown was developed by Captain John Godfrey in the 1750s as the central town of their estate. The development of Milltown was a deliberate attempt at urban planning by the Godfreys who hoped such development would increase the income and prosperity of their estate through rents, market tolls and the promotion of industries. The Milltown Halt railway station opened on 1 November 1886 and closed on 1 February 1960. Kilcoleman Abbey Bushfield House was built for Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet in the 1770s after the original Bushfield House, a long low thatched house was destroyed by fire. More or less abandoned from 1800 to 1818, Bushfield was renovated under the second Baronet, Sir John Godfrey, according to plans drawn up by the architect, William Vitruvius Morrison and renamed Kilcoleman Abbey. However the general economic decline of the 1820s meant that only the stables and service wing, with its Flemish gables, were completed as planned. Later, in the early 1840s, Sir William Godfrey, 3rd Baronet further modified the main block of the house, adding an attic storey, a turret emblazoned with the Red Hand of Ulster, the traditional shield of a Baronet and assorted gables, pinnacles and buttresses. Inside, the main reception rooms were remodelled in the then-popular Gothic style with plasterwork by local craftsmen, making extensive use of the Godfrey crest. The house was the centre of a 6,000-acre estate and was lived in continually by the Godfrey family until 1958. The last owner, Miss Phyllis Godfrey, confronted by an infestation of dry rot, was forced to abandon the house for the gate lodge where