Cartron

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 289 m² to 172,399 m² (17.24 ha, 42.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Cartron 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.

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  for retention of roofed dung stead and for permission to construct a new slatted shed with internal cattle crush, concrete yard and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 839.90 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 225.41 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 211417

• 22 Jun 2021N/a

  to construct a warehouse for use as a light industrial workshop, storage, parking area, a connection to the public sewer and all associated site works at the above location. Gross floor space of proposed works 445.45sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211100

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 111.74 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21527

• 17 Feb 2021Refused

  for retention of commercial site entrance as amendment to previously approved planning reference number 18/1458 on revised site boundaries.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21188

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  of commercial garage with a new site entrance & associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 432.15 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 181458

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 Cartron.

Recorded monuments

• GA033-014 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. Four small hachured features marked on the 1926 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pits defined by hollows. Three are close together and the fourth lies c. 165m to the S. Probably of 19th/20th-century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

• GA033-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NNE-SSW 34m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from E through S to N; the fosse survives all round. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and ENE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA033-016 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. Two hachured areas marked c. 190m apart on the 1926 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be disused gravel pits defined by hollows. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cartron, about 1 in 20 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 Cartron.

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 Cartron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cartron · An Cartrún

Area

1,118,767 m² (111.88 ha, 276.45 acres)

Civil parish

Killeroran, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,301 people lived in 512 households in the Killeroran electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygar, Barnacurra, Cloonascarberry North, Cloonlyon, Drinaun, Hermitage, Killeroran

Placenames

Cartron 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.