Cartron

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 135 m² to 37,050 m² (3.7 ha, 9.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  for private dwelling house, a domestic garage and on site waste water treatment system with all other site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660649

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660100

• 23 Dec 2025Refused

  of dwelling house on revised site boundaries to include all associated site works and to sub-divide dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25367

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  of the existing conservatory to the side of the dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to retain and complete the construction of the existing structure (to the rear of the dwelling house) which will be used as a storage shed and an area will be used for the enjoyment of the dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561170

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  to carry out alterations to the existing community care centre which will involve the creation of an apartment in part of the community care centre, full planning permission also sought for the construction of a new dwelling house and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 115 sqm (H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461484

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  for the development previously granted permission under pl. ref. 17/552, for 7no. townhouses. The development consisted of construction for the 7no. townhouses at their current stage of construction & permission to complete the 7no. townhouses as proposed together with all ancillary site works & services. Gross floor space of work to be retained in: 647 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23451

• 21 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of the construction of a new single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360404

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a community walkway adjacent to the River Clare from the existing public footpath adjacent to the bridge (N17 crossing of River Clare) in Milltown Village to the grounds of Milltown GAA Club and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260292

• 2 Feb 2021Conditional

  of a) a Maintenance Shed, b) For the erection of 8 No. 20m high Pitch floodlighting Columns to the Main Pitch and c) For the erection of 8 No. 18m high Pitch floodlighting Columns to the Second Pitch and all associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 32 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21104

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  for development at the Bar/Retail & residential premises and adjacent yard formerly known as Glynn's Milltown. The development will consist of: The renovation and alteration of the existing building and yard such that they will provide 7 no. 2 bed town houses, parking for 7 cars along with all necessary siteworks and services. (Gross floor space of existing buildings: 772 sqm., gross floor space of demolition works: 144 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17552

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA016-016 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On level farmland, c. 500m NW of Milltown village. A roughly oval area (N-S 26.6m, E-W 22m) with slight indications of an enclosing earthen bank from SE to S. Within the interior, small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. 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

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 5 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 Cartún

Area

586,356 m² (58.64 ha, 144.89 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

704 people lived in 266 households in the Milltown electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banagher, Cloonnacross, Gortnaloura, Milltown, Ummeracly East

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.