Cartron West
Cartron West is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An Cartrún Thiar.
Parcel 295622
- Area
- 74,014 m² (7.4 ha, 18.29 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cartron West
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
- Special Area of Conservation: Charleville Wood SAC 000571
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1938 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 33.7 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 33,229 m² (3.32 ha, 8.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron West, from 3,126 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) to 142,293 m² (14.23 ha, 35.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cartron West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 May 2023Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CUBICLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE, MILKING MACHINE FACILITY, DAIRY/ MILK TANK STORE (B) NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 23229
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Charleville Wood SAC 000571
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
- OF016-084 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
Cropmark of ring-ditch (diam. c. 9m) Google Earth photograph taken 26/01/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 14 January 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cartron West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cartron West, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1938 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cartron West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Cartron West · An Cartrún Thiar
- Area
- 336,743 m² (33.67 ha, 83.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Silverbrook, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 822 people lived in 266 households in the Silverbrook electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Charleville Demesne, Kilbride, Killiskea
- Placenames
- Cartron West 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.