# Caltragh More, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish An Chealdrach Mhór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 831,041 m² (83.1 ha, 205.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,934 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cashel, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/cashel.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Cashel East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 278 people lived in 114 households in the Cashel East electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32550 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130181 - Centre: latitude 53.599004, longitude -7.940751 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caltragh More, from 288 m² to 188,147 m² (18.81 ha, 46.49 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 64135: 188,147 m² (18.81 ha, 46.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64135.md - Parcel 60264: 153,254 m² (15.33 ha, 37.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60264.md - Parcel 5330119: 82,590 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5330119.md - Parcel 62231: 62,589 m² (6.26 ha, 15.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62231.md - Parcel 51936: 59,474 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51936.md - Parcel 5278308: 53,789 m² (5.38 ha, 13.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278308.md - Parcel 6000631: 48,225 m² (4.82 ha, 11.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6000631.md - Parcel 70995: 47,834 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70995.md - Parcel 70492: 42,313 m² (4.23 ha, 10.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70492.md - Parcel 70493: 32,046 m² (3.2 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70493.md - Parcel 56454: 23,823 m² (2.38 ha, 5.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56454.md - Parcel 53033: 15,368 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53033.md - Parcel 2732549: 6,723 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2732549.md - Parcel 2732547: 4,435 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2732547.md - Parcel 70489: 4,223 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70489.md - Parcel 5278313: 3,264 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278313.md - Parcel 58679: 1,203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/58679.md - Parcel 78899: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/78899.md - Parcel 70488: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/70488.md - Parcel 51752: 288 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/51752.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Caltragh More in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 5 Feb 2021, Longford County Council 2130: Conditional. Permission. revised plans for 4 bay slatted shed with dry bedded area, with one side of the shed continuing by an additional 4 bays to cover part of existing open yard. Planning was previously granted under planning register reference 19/33. Revisions consist of increasing the overall width of the north end 4 bays by 4.8m along with the introduction of feeding barriers and 8ft overhang to the north east elevation, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2130/0 - 11 Feb 2019, Longford County Council 1933: Conditional. Permission. to 1). demolish existing silage pit along with adjoining roofed storage area, 2). construct a 4 bay slatted shed with dry bedded area, with one side of the shed continuing by an additional 4 bays to cover part of existing open yard, 3). construct a walled silage pit, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/1933/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caltragh More. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF021-037: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF021-037----. On a low, natural rise in pasture. Named 'Caltragh Castle' on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In 1836-7 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books for the parish of Cashel in the barony of Rathcline recorded that the ‘ruins of an old castle are to be seen at the west end of the village’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 12). The Ordnance Survey recorded that the building known locally as ‘Caltromore Old Castle was ‘about 1 chain [20m] long by about ½ a chain [10m] broad. Nothing remains but the foundations’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 13). It has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 June 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1900–1920, Regional interest, registry number 13402110, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13402110. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, having full-height canted bays to either end of the front elevation (northwest). Hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings and two central rendered chimneystacks. Pitched roof to centre of rear elevation (southeast) having terracotta ridge crestings. Chamfered corners to ends of slates. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered quoins to ground floor; and rendered eaves course to canted bays with blocking course over and rendered string courses between floors. Square-headed openings having one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to canted end-bays, tripartite window to centre-bay, first floor, having one-over-one timber sliding sash central window with flanking one-over-one pane coloured glass windows, all with painted limestone sills and having lined-and-ruled voussoirs effect over. Central square-headed opening with glazed overlights and sidelights flanking timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Newtown-Cashel. Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the northwest. Pedestrian gateway to the northwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered caps and single leaf replacement timber gate. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Caltragh More, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Caltragh More. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/caltragh-more.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/caltragh-more.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/caltragh-more.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Caltragh More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghnacross: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghnacross.md - Ballina: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballina.md - Cloonmee: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonmee.md - Cornadowagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/cornadowagh.md - Lightfield: https://everytownland.com/longford/lightfield.md - Streamstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/streamstown-130841.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/caltragh-more - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/caltragh-more