Cartronearl
Cartronearl is a townland in the civil parish of Killeroran, barony of Killian, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cartrún an Iarla.
- Area
- 49.1 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 15,037 m² (1.5 ha, 3.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartronearl, from 790 m² to 123,059 m² (12.31 ha, 30.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cartronearl 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
3 Dec 2025Conditional
of constructed dwelling house that differs to that previously granted under Planning application ref: 2460508 along with all ancillary site development works
Retention · Galway County Council, 2561778
1 May 2025Conditional
to demolish the existing rear extension; to refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and construct new rear extension, and carry out all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 43 sqm (extension)
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560521
7 May 2024Conditional
to: 1. demolish existing rear extension, 2. refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and construct new rear extension, 3. install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, 4. demolish existing site entrance and construct new site entrance along front boundary, also form new boundary to front with hedging, and post and wire fence to south and east boundaries to define the garden space associated with the building unit, and carry out all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 150 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 39 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460508
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 Cartronearl.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cartronearl.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cartronearl.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cartronearl, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cartronearl.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cartronearl with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cartronearl · Cartrún an Iarla
- Area
- 491,377 m² (49.14 ha, 121.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeroran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Killian
- Electoral division
- Castleffrench, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 522 people lived in 178 households in the Castleffrench electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlass, Ballybaun, Charlestown or Pollnamucka, Curraghboy, Newtown, Riversdale
- Placenames
- Cartronearl 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.