Cartronbower
Cartronbower is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Cartún Bodhar.
- Area
- 94.2 ha
- 233 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 7,015 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartronbower, from 27 m² to 113,617 m² (11.36 ha, 28.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Cartronbower 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
19 Sept 2025Refused
The development will consist of the construction of a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560653
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
10 Sept 2024Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated works at the above address
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460565
30 Aug 2024Conditional
Planning permission for development of a new dwelling house, garage and an on-site wastewater treatment system together with boundary treatment and access road and all associated and ancillary site development works and services on this site at Cartronbower, Carra, County Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460546
11 Dec 2023Conditional
construction of a change of house type, revision to site layout, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit with polishing filter and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23654
22 Dec 2022Conditional
construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221164
1 Nov 2022Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22959
28 Sept 2022Conditional
Construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22845
15 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT & PERCOLATION SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22690
6 Sept 2021Conditional
ALTERATIONS/REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION P20/643 TO INCLUDE ENLARGED GARAGE SIZE AND REVISED SITE LAYOUT
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21947
11 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE THE UPGRADE OF AN EXISTING ROADWAY BETWEEN THE LANDS AND THE EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD L18033, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PROVISION OF ANCILLARY SERVICES ON SITE.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20643
12 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20560
6 Sept 2019Conditional
CHANGE HOUSE TYPE AND GARAGE GRANTED UNDER P16/772 TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19695
19 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 171015
1 Nov 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17867
6 Apr 2017Conditional
EXTEND AND RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17246
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 Cartronbower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cartronbower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cartronbower.
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 Cartronbower, 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 Cartronbower.
- 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 Cartronbower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cartronbower · An Cartún Bodhar
- Area
- 941,510 m² (94.15 ha, 232.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Tawnynagry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 378 people lived in 135 households in the Tawnynagry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloor East, Barnakillew, Cranmore, Drumminroe West, Skehahagh
- Placenames
- Cartronbower 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.