Cartoon

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartoon, from 27 m² to 158,341 m² (15.83 ha, 39.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Cartoon 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.

• 2 Jan 2026Conditional

  retain existing dwelling house, detached domestic garage and front boundary wall, permission to upgrade the existing septic tank system to include new tertiary treatment unit and percolation area including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 261

• 18 Dec 2025N/a

  retain existing dwelling house, detached domestic garage and front boundary wall, permission to upgrade the existing septic tank system to include new tertiary treatment unit and percolation area including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25509

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation and detached domestic garage area including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24422

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20961

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036

Recorded monuments

• MA015-032 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located in lowlying terrain. There is rise in ground level immediately to W and a dip into a natural hollow immediately to E. The Palmerstown River is located c. 180 M to N. This enclosure is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 25-inch plan as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) with trees planted in the interior, and on the 1922 6-inch edition as a subcircular enclosure with no trees. It was levelled during land reclamation; there is no visible trace at ground level. According to local information, it was enclosed by a high, wide earthen bank, and was known as the ‘Round garden’. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cartoon, 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 Cartoon.

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 Cartoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cartoon · An Cartún

Area

1,066,387 m² (106.64 ha, 263.51 acres)

Civil parish

Killala, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Killala, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,325 people lived in 512 households in the Killala electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlereagh, Kilgobban, Killybrone, Leadymore, Ross (Gardiner)

Placenames

Cartoon 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.