Cartron

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 2,400 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 92,104 m² (9.21 ha, 22.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; 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.

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the construction of domestic garage and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660399

• 11 Sept 2017N/a

  Retention of domestic store and entrance gateway on site at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17381

• 6 Jul 2017N/a

  of domestic store and entrance gateway on site at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17307

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

• RO044-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 49.6m N-S; 47m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.8-6.8m; int. H 0.3m at S to 0.8-1.1m generally; ext. H 0.9m at S to 1.4-2m generally) and hedge, which is incorporated into a field bank NE-S-W and forms the townland boundary with Cloonlaughnan SE-SW. There is a complete rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.7-8m; Wth of base 2.5-3.4m; D 0.5-0.6m), best preserved SSW-W and NW-NE. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at NW and a field bank circumscribes the monument NW-NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1310 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Cartron, Kilmore6 sales

Name

Cartron

Area

817,375 m² (81.74 ha, 201.98 acres)

Civil parish

Tisrara, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Lismaha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lismaha electoral division: 365 people in 143 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carroward, Cloonca, Cloonlaughnan

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.