Cartron

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 2,208 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 261,582 m² (26.16 ha, 64.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cartron in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• GA099-054 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In flat farmland, c. 50m N of Cartron House. A circular enclosure (D c. 45m) defined by a tree-lined earthen bank; known locally as 'a fort'. According to local information, there was 'an old house' within the interior, of which no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA099-055 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge in undulating grassland. A well-preserved circular rath (D 26m) defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The outermost bank survives only from NNE to ENE. There is an entrance at SE. Within the interior is a rectangular hollow (L 7m, Wth 2m), its long axis running N-S; possibly the remains of a souterrain. An enclosure (GA099-055002-) lies c. 5m to N. 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

• GA099-055001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA099-055002 Enclosure
  Description

  Some 5m N of a ringfort (GA099-055----). Poorly preserved subrectangular enclosure (N-S 20m, E-W 15m) defined by a low earthen bank. Possibly associated with the adjacent rath. 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

• Cartron House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having symmetrical front and north elevations. Hipped slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks and eaves course, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render quoins. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, cut-stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed door openings with render surrounds to front and north elevations, having timber panelled door with petal fanlight and leaded sidelights over timber risers, and with cut-stone threshold. Render plinth wall to front garden, with cast-iron railings, and square-plan rendered gate piers to site entrance, with rendered flanking walls.

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 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 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

466,753 m² (46.68 ha, 115.34 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Oatfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardranny Beg, Ballyterrim, Cooltymurraghy, Gorteenaveela, Lisheennavannoge (Blake), Lisheennavannoge (Clancarty), Lissawullaun

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.