Cartroncar

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartroncar, from 81 m² to 144,123 m² (14.41 ha, 35.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cartroncar 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.

• 16 Apr 2025N/a

  (A) Retention of an existing recently constructed piggery unit containing 5 no. pig rooms with underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (B) Retention of an existing newly constructed extension to existing piggery unit containing 2 no. pig rooms with underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (C) Retention of newly constructed feed preparation area with 3 no. feed silos to service existing pig farm; (D) Retention of existing newly constructed underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (E) Retention of the newly constructed secured car parking compound with access gates & perimeter fencing; (F) Retention of recently constructed overground water storage tank compound and all ancillary works at Cartroncar, Coolagherty, Co. Longford for Granard Farms. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560061

• 31 Jan 2025N/a

  the following: (A) Retention of an existing recently constructed piggery unit containing 5 no. pig rooms with underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (B) Retention of an existing newly constructed extension to existing piggery unit containing 2 no. pig rooms with underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (C) Retention of newly constructed feed preparation area with 3 no. feed silos to service existing pig farm; (D) Retention of existing newly constructed underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (E) Retention of the newly constructed secured car parking compound with access gates & perimeter fencing; (F) Retention of recently constructed overground water storage tank compound. All of the above service the existing pig farm and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560018

• 17 Jun 2020N/a

  (A) retention of an existing recently constructed piggery unit containing 11 no. pig rooms with underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (B) retention of an existing newly constructed extension to existing piggery unit containing 2 no. pig rooms with underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (C) retention of newly constructed feed preparation area with 3 no. feed silos to service existing pig farm; (D) retention of existing newly constructed underground effluent storage tank which has been constructed in replacement of a recently demolished piggery unit; (E) retention of the newly constructed secured car parking compound with access gates & perimeter fencing; (F) retention of recently constructed overground water storage tank compound. All of the above service the existing pig farm and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 20129

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 Cartroncar.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cartroncar.

Architectural heritage

• Cartroncar House, house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house with attic level, built 1832, on L-shaped plan having two-storey over basement return to the rear (northwest) at the northeast end. Now disused. Hipped natural slate roofs with projecting cut stone eaves course and having a central pair of rendered chimneystacks to the main block and a rendered chimneystack to the rear return. Remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls, formerly rendered. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, attic windows to sides (southwest and northeast) and rear (northwest) having four-over-four timber sliding sash windows. Number of sash windows now removed. Remains of timber panelled shutters to interior. Central segmental-headed door opening to front elevation (southeast) having timber battened door and spoked fanlight over. Flight of moulded cut stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Granard. Complex of outbuildings (13401504) and walled garden (13401505) to the rear. Main entrance gates (13401506) and boundary walls to road-frontage to the south.

• Cartroncar House, farmyard complex, 1830–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around two courtyards to the rear (northwest) of Cartroncar House (13401503), built c. 1832 and c. 1870. Complex to the northeast, built c. 1832, comprising multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to northwest with hipped corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed and circular window openings with cut limestone voussoirs, and square-headed carriage openings with timber lintels and relieving arches over; two-bay single-storey outbuilding to southwest with lean-to corrugated-metal roof, rubble limestone walls, and square-headed openings; multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the southwest with lean-to slate roof with cut limestone eaves course, dressed limestone walls, square-headed and circular window openings, and segmental-headed carriage arches; and single-storey building to south corner of north-east yard has hipped corrugated-metal roof, dressed limestone walls, and segmental-headed door openings with cut stone voussoirs. Sheet metal gate to front of northeast yard, beside house. Complex of outbuildings to the southwest comprising a three-bay two-storey outbuilding to west/northwest, built c. 1870 and formerly in use as a cattle/bull shed, having hipped corrugated-metal roof, snecked dressed limestone walls, segmental-headed carriage arches at ground floor level having dressed limestone voussoirs, square-headed windows openings at first floor level with cut limestone sills, and a central circular opening to the centre bay at first floor level having dressed limestone surrounds. Three-bay single-storey former ammunition store, built c. 1900, to the southeast corner having flat concrete roof, concrete walls and square-headed door openings. Rubble limestone boundary wall to southwest side of southwest yard having entrance gateway having rendered and coursed rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having double-leaf wrought-iron gates with cast-iron fleur-de-lis finials. Set back from road to the rear (northwest) of Cartoncar House (13401503), and to the southwest of Granard.

• Cartroncar House, walled garden, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on sub-rectangular plan associated with Cartroncar House (13401503), erected c. 1832. Currently disused. Constructed of roughly squared and dressed rubble limestone with some sections having dressed stone coping over. Integral segmental-headed pedestrian entrance to the southwest having wrought-iron flat bar gate and dressed limestone voussoirs. Gateways to wall having rendered gate piers and wrought-iron gates. Square-headed window/loop hole openings to some walls having dressed limestone voussoirs. Set back from road to the northwest of Cartroncar House, and to the southwest of Granard.

• Cartroncar House, gates/railings/walls, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Main entrance gateway and boundary walls serving Cartroncar House (13401503), erected c. 1832. Gateway comprises a pair of cast-iron openwork gate piers, gates now missing. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of roughly squared rubble limestone boundary wall having crenellated coping over. Gateway located to the southeast of house, boundary walls to the south and west. Road-fronted to the southwest of Granard.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cartroncar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cartroncar · Cartrún na Ceárta

Area

682,976 m² (68.3 ha, 168.77 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 367 people in 130 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilcourcey, Killinawas, Laughil (Adair), Lisduff, Lisraghtigan, Roos, Tully

Placenames

Cartroncar 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.