Castletown

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 3,938 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres) to 190,632 m² (19.06 ha, 47.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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.

• 9 Mar 2018Conditional

  renovate an existing dwelling, construct a two storey extension (which will contain a self contained apartment), domestic garage, upgrade an existing site access, upgrade the existing waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1840

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castletown.

Recorded monuments

• LE007-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise on the floor of Glencar valley. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 21.1m E-W; 20.8m N-S) defined by a round-topped bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m at W to 0.65m at NE; ext. H 0.9m) planted with deciduous trees and an outer, intermittently-visible fosse evident as a band (Wth 2-3m) of lush vegetation. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-061 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a rock outcrop plinth (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 15m E-W; max. H 1.3-2m) that rises from a gentle S-facing slope on the floor of Glencar valley, with a small N-S stream just to the E. There is a reference to the capture and destruction of the O'Rourke castle of Car (Caisleán an Chairthe) in 1487 (AFM), which records the earliest use of guns in Ireland (McGivney 1932, 17-18; Hayes-McCoy 1938-9, 47). It was destroyed again in 1536 (McDermott 2019, 109-11, and in 1621-2 Tiernan Mac Owen O'Rourke received a grant of 1500 acres as the Manor of Carra (Mac an Ghalloglaigh 1971, 241, 254) and he may have refurbished the castle. This is a rectangular three-storey structure (ext. dims 13.4m E-W; 9.5m N-S; int. dims 9m E-W; 5.35m N-S) of which only the W gable and adjacent parts of the N and S walls survive. It is built of randomly coursed limestone masonry with dressed quoins, which are largely robbed, and a base-batter, but it lacks a barrel vault and all the windows on the upper floors appear to be inserted. The joists for the upper floors are set directly into the N and S walls. The W wall has a centrally located fireplace flanked by robbed single lights at the ground floor, with a light (Wth 0.07m; H 0.36m) of dressed stone that has a gun-loop beneath it in the S wall. There is an inserted two-light window with square hood-mouldings in the W wall at the first and second floors, with evidence of a fireplace in the N wall and a window embrasure in the S wall at the first floor. (Connellan 1946, 34-5) See the attached view taken from the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castletown.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Castletown, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castletown.

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.

No address of the register names Castletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

270,656 m² (27.07 ha, 66.88 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Lurganboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

444 people lived in 169 households in the Lurganboy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barracashlaun, Drumnacross, Fivepoundland, Shancurragh, Shancurragh Barr Of, Tawnymoyle

Placenames

Castletown 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.