Cartronkeel

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartronkeel, from 6 m² to 38,501 m² (3.85 ha, 9.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Established Residential (Existing residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 118 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Sporting Recreational (Active open space)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community, Educational & Institutional (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community, Educational & Institutional (Community facilities)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Moate, Westmeath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Jul 2026N/a

  RETENTION Permission is being sought for a storage facility at the rear of his public house

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660371

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  construction of a part one-storey, part two-storey detached dwelling and associated single storey garage structure; the construction of a new boundary wall along the site’s eastern boundary, adjacent to the road and all other associated site works, above and below ground

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560413

• 25 May 2022Conditional

  Development of a multi-unit residential scheme comprising a total of 26 No. residential units on a site of 0.59 Ha, at the Former Carmelite Monastery (Protected Structure) and grounds. The development will consist of: (1) Demolition of 2 No. two-storey dormitory buildings and 2 No. agricultural buildings on the site; (2) Modifications to former Carmelite Monastery residential building consisting of the re-use, remodelling and extension of the existing three-storey protected structure to provide 9 No. apartments, comprising 4 No. 2-bedroom apartments and 5 No. 1-bedroom apartments; (3) Construction of 14 No. two-storey semi-detached dwellings to the rear (east) of the protected structure; and (4) Associated site works including car parking, communal amenity space, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments and all above and below ground works associated with connection to services; This application relates to a proposed development consisting of the carrying out of works to, and within the curtilage of, a protected structure (Former Carmelite Monastery, WCC RPS Ref. No. 030-054, NIAH Reg. No. 15317066). Part of the proposed development is located within an Architectural Conservation Area.

  Permission, 26 homes · Westmeath County Council, 22281

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 Cartronkeel.

Recorded monuments

• WM030-112 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Moate Castle situated on an elevated site, set back c. 35m N of Main Street, in the town of Moate. Depicted on the Down Survey map of Clonlonan barony and annotated as ‘Castle habitable’, described in the Terrier of the parish map, ‘There stands in Motegrenog a castle habitable’ (NLI, MS 723-4). Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a long rectangular-shaped structure in a complex of buildings, annotated ‘The Castle’. Monument described in 1981 as a multi-period complex incorporating a medieval tower house, a possible fortified house, a mid-18th century house and a working yard. The main structures consist of the remains of a 3-storey tower house which incorporates a Georgian dwelling. The tower is built of limestone rubble with a base batter to the E, S and W walls (T 8ft/2.4m), which appears to have been deliberately removed along the N wall, which forms the principal facade of the Georgian house. Dressed quoins are visible forming the corners of the tower house, where the plaster rendering has fallen away. A three storey house of probable early to mid-18th century date adjoins the W side of the tower house. The castle and the Georgian dwelling are the same height and are roofed with one continuous pitched roof. A two-storey ruinous wing (over a basement level) breaks forward on the N facade at the E and W ends. These wings have blank gable walls on the N façing front facade. The S facing rear façade of the E wing is bowed and appears to incorporate the remains of a medieval structure, however this could also be an 18th century ornamental flanker with a semi-circular outer wall. If this can be proven to be the case, it was probably matched by three other ornamental flankers, which no longer survive. A fine medieval doorway with a pointed arch is incorporated into a small yard adjoining to E of the 18th century house. A sheela-na-gig (WM030-112001-) is set into the wall directly above the point of the arch and was probably taken from a nearby medieval church. Within the yard is an 18th century stables which has a single light ogee headed window opening and a fine triskele ventilator, both of 15th / 16th century date. The origins of these medieval features is unknown. Above a doorway leading to a loft in the S wall of the yard is a Coat of Arms bearing three flaming castles on a shield, above which is a ribbon, with ears of corn flanking either side. Below is a label with the numbers 2355, which may indicate it is an insurance plaque. The original deed of transfer from Humphrey’s, the planter soldier to Clibourne family dated 1656 was viewed during the field inspection and it suggests that the tower-house may be at least late 15th or 16th century in date. The tower house was being renovated at the time of the field inspection in 1982. Moate Castle described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a 'Detached two-bay three-storey former fortified house/tower house, built 1550, having a three-bay three-storey wing to the west end, built c.1720 and possibly containing earlier fabric, and a two-storey bowed extension to the east end, built c.1760. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and paired or single timber sliding sash windows. Cut stone detailing, including a sheila-na-gig and cut stone surrounds with pointed-arched window openings (possibly taken from a medieval church site), to original castle. Base batter to castle walls. A complex structure, of at least three periods of construction, which dominates the centre of the town and is of immense local historical significance. This confusing structure was originally built by the O'Melaghlin family, probably during the sixteenth century. It was later acquired by Captain John Clibborn in 1659, who repaired the castle and may have built the wing to the west end shortly afterwards. James Clibborn later carried out extensive works to the complex c.1730/40. It was the home of a Cuthbert Clibborn in 1837 (Lewis). The bowed wing to the east end may have been added slightly later, perhaps during the late eighteenth-century' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; HIAH Reg. No. 15317049). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 10 November 2019

• WM030-112001 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Sheela-na-gig incorporated into wall of outbuilding located in farmyard immediately E of Moate Castle (WM030-112----). The carving of the sheela-na-gig is situated above a pointed doorway which has been rebuilt into an 18th /19th century outbuilding. The doorway and sheela-na-gig may have come from the adjacent Moate Castle (WM030-112----). Described by Freitag as a sheela-na-gig that has been, ‘carved in an oval impression of roughly rectangular slab. All features asymmetrical. Huge head, wavy lines across forehead, ovoid eyes (left empty, right with eyeball), puffy cheeks, grim open mouth showing teeth. Tiny breasts; protruding belly; arms reaching down in front of body with fingers of both hands grabbing oval vulva. Of legs only left thigh is discernible. A belt passes obliquely round abdomen’ (Freitag 2004, 138). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2012

• WM030-112002 Architectural feature
  Description

  Incorporated into the small yard to the East of Moate Castle (WM030-112----) is a fine medieval doorway with a sheela-na-gig (WM030-112001-) above it. In the outer wall of the 18th c. stables in the yard is a small single light ogee headed window and a fine cut-stone triskele ventilator, both of 15th or 16th century style. These architectural features may have originally belonged to the fabric of the medieval castle and may have been moved when the Georgian House was added on to the medieval tower house. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 11 November 2019

• WM030-112003 Bawn
  Description

  In 1982 the ASI recorded the presence of a semi-circular flanker abutting the SE corner of the tower house (WM030-112----) which may be the remains of a flanker belonging to a possible bawn of the castle now mainly destroyed. This bawn wall may have had four circular flanking towers and could have been added on to the tower house (WM030-112----) in the 17th century when a three-storey high building was added on to the W face of the tower house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2012

• WM030-113 Burial ground
  Description

  Burial ground enclosing the site of a late 17th century Quakers Meeting House (WM030-0113001-) stands on an elevated greenfield site c. 150m N of Main Street, in the town of Moate. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped area, annotated ‘Burial Ground’. Monument described in 1983 as the remains of a subrectangular-shaped area defined by a post-1700 stone wall. The site of a Quaker's meeting house (WM030-113001-) stands in the SW sector. Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a 'Quaker burial ground on irregular-plan, erected c.1692, containing a collection of mainly eighteenth and nineteenth century upstanding grave markers. Now out of use and heavily overgrown. Plaque built into a wall to the north, now illegible. Remains of former Quaker Meeting House to the south side, built c.1692 and rebuilt c.1768. Complex surrounded by a rubble stone wall, now partially collapsed. This graveyard and the remains of the meeting house (built 1694, rebuilt 1768 and largely demolished c.1930) was originally built by the Clibborn Family of Moate Castle (WM030-112----)' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 15317050). Burial ground is visible today as a pentagonal-shaped tree-lined enclosure on OSi aerial photography which appears to have been straightened along the E side to form a subrectangular-shaped tree-lined enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. A bullaun stone (WM030-117----) is located outside the W wall of the burial ground. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 10 November 2019

• WM030-113001 Meeting-house
  Description

  Situated on an rise of ground c. 150m to N of Main Street, in the town of Moate. In SW sector of the burial ground (WM030-113----) there is a partially surviving section of upstanding rubble built wall (L 7m E-W; H 3m) which represents the S wall of the Quaker meeting house. In the centre of the wall there is an arched doorway (Wth 2m x H 2.25m). There are three plaques on the wall. Two on the W side of the doorway. The first reads: “Site of friends meeting house AD 1694 By John Clibborn The Castle, Moate Taken down by order of Dublin meeting 1921.” The second plaque which is lozenge shaped reads: “Rebuilt in the year 1768.” A third plaque is visible on the wall to E of the doorway. This reads; “Built by John Clibborn Ad 1694.” The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) recorded that this 'graveyard and the remains of the meeting house (built 1694, rebuilt 1768 and largely demolished c.1930) was originally built by the Clibborn Family of Moate Castle (15317049). The Clibborns, along with other Quaker families such as the Homan and the Robinson families, were responsible for much of the growth and development of Moate and surrounding areas during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries' (www.buildingsofireland.ie). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 10 November 2019

• WM030-113002 Inscribed stone
  Description

  In SW sector of Quaker burial ground (WM030-113----) in the town of Moate there is a partially surviving section of upstanding wall which represents the S wall of the Quaker meeting house (WM030-113001-). In the centre of the wall there is an arched doorway. There are three plaques on the wall. Two on the W side of the doorway. The first reads: “Site of friends meeting house AD 1694 By John Glibborn The Castle, Moate Taken down by order of Dublin meeting 1921.” The second plaque which is lozenge shaped reads: “Rebuilt in the year 1768.” A third plaque is visible on the wall to E of the doorway. This reads: “Built by John Glibborn Ad 1694.” Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 10 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• The Castle, house, castle/fortified house, 1500–1750 · National interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay three-storey former fortified house/tower house, built 1550, having a three-bay three-storey wing to the west end, built c.1720 and possibly containing earlier fabric, and a two-storey bowed extension to the east end, built c.1760. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and paired or single timber sliding sash windows. Cut stone detailing, including a sheila-na-gig and cut stone surrounds with pointed-arched window openings (possibly taken from a medieval church site), to original castle. Base batter to castle walls. Round-headed doorcase to the north elevation of the wing to the west having a cut stone block-and-start doorcase with a timber panelled door having a spoke/radial fanlight over. Set back from road in mature grounds on a raised site to the centre of Moate with a collection of outbuildings to the east and the north, many ruinous and some containing the fabric of earlier buildings/outbuildings.

• Graveyard/cemetery, meeting house, 1692–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quaker burial ground on irregular-plan, erected c.1692, containing a collection of mainly eighteenth and nineteenth century upstanding grave markers. Now out of use and heavily overgrown. Plaque built into a wall to the north, now illegible. Remains of former Quaker Meeting House to the south side, built c.1692 and rebuilt c.1768. Complex surrounded by a rubble stone wall, now partially collapsed. Located to the north of Moate, behind the main street, an approached by an avenue to the south.

• Cartronkeel House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1790, having a two-bay two-storey section attached to the south end. Three-storey return to the rear (west). One of a pair with the building to the north (15317058). Pitched natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over to the main three-storey section. Mono-pitched roof over section to the south having a castellated parapet over street frontage (east). Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and with twelve-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground and first floor openings and eight-over-four pane timber sash windows to the second floor. Round-headed doorcase to the centre of the three-bay main section having a cut stone architraved doorcase with a timber panelled door and a spoke/radial fanlight over. Similar doorcase to the north end of the front façade (east) of the two-storey block to the south. Road-fronted to the south end of the Newtown suburb to the northeast end of Moate. Low rendered wall with cut stone coping over basement section to entrance front (east).

• The Rectory, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c.1790. Formerly in use as a Church of Ireland rectory. One of a pair with the building to the south (15317057). Pitched natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and with twelve-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground and first floor openings and with eight-over-four pane timber sash windows to the second floor. Central round-headed doorway having a cut stone architraved doorcase with a timber panelled door and a spoke/radial fanlight over. Road-fronted to the south end of the Newtown suburb to the northeast end of Moate. Low rendered wall with cut stone coping over basement section to entrance front (east). Roughcast rendered boundary wall runs away to the north having a square-headed carriage arch and a square-headed pedestrian entrance. Outbuilding to the rear (west).

• The Castle, walled garden, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on rectilinear plan associated with Moate Castle (15317049), built c.1780. Constructed using rubble limestone with lime mortar. Now overgrown and out of use. Square-headed pedestrian entrances having wrought-iron gates to the west and the north walls. Located to the east of Moate Castle and to the west of the Newtown suburb.

• Shrine/oratory/grotto, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic shrine, erected c.1900, depicting the Crucifixion and set in a random rubble walled enclosure. Date plaque to timber cross, dated ‘1900’. Rendered wall with decorative cast-iron railings over to road-frontage, running away to the north and the south. Cast-iron gate posts and gate to the east give access to site. Wrought-iron gate to the north. Located to the northwest end of the Newtown suburb, Moate, overlooking the Church of the Immaculate Conception (15317067) to the east.

• Post box, 1937–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1940, with raised 'P&T' cipher in Gaelic/Celtic Revival script above letter slot. Maker's name appears at base in raised lettering 'St John's Works, Enniscorthy'. Set in rubble limestone pier to south end of section of walling associated with Catholic shrine (15317068). Located at west side of Newtown suburb, Moate.

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 Cartronkeel, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cartronkeel.

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 Cartronkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Cartronkeel

Area

251,064 m² (25.11 ha, 62.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Moate, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,521 people lived in 1,309 households in the Moate electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanargit, Killeenboylegan, Legan, Moategranoge, Toorfelim

Placenames

Cartronkeel 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.