Cartron

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 23 m² to 113,467 m² (11.35 ha, 28.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of:- Proposed demolition and replacement of existing derelict dwelling with alterations, which includes extension to same. Proposed demolition of existing sheds. Proposed domestic garage and sewage treatment system, percolation area with ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18552

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18304

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

• RO052-001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  A castle at Bealamully had been lost by Myles Cavanagh to Irish rebels by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 117), which may have been at this location close to Bealanamullia. Traditionally Cartron castle is associated with St Ruth, who commanded the Jacobite forces in 1691 and who was dallying there while the Williamites captured Athlone (Egan 2007, 149-50). In 1641 110 acres at Cloonakille, just to the W, was leased by George Devonish from Lord Wilmott (Simington 1949, 92), and it is possible that he might have built this house. The armorial stone now at Mullagh (RO048-189----), commemorating the building of a house in 1627 by George Devonish, might have come from this monument, which was described as a house by J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 29; Herity 2010, 19). Cartron has also been identified as the site of the castle of Onagh – Muille Uainidhe – the mill rather than the hill (mullach) of Onagh, which was built c. 1236 and is mentioned again in 1170 (ALC) (Anon. 1968, 19-22; Ó Murchadha, 1994-5, 23). However, if Onagh castle was in this Bealnamully area it may have been the motte and bailey at Ballycreggan (RO048-113001-). Cartron castle is depicted as a N-S structure on the E side of a minor road and described as 'Cartron Castle (in Ruins)' only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The house is situated on a SW-facing slope, and described as a rectangular structure (dims c. 10.5m x c. 5m) of two storeys with a projecting chimney stack at one end which tapered as it rose (Anon 1994, 118-9). It was removed in the early 1980s, and an archaeological excavation (E000877) near the monument failed to produce any related archaeological material (Morahan 1986). The rectangular field (dims c. 95m E-W; c. 90m N-S) defined by stone walls c. 30m to the NW and bounded by a lane on the N and E may have been a walled garden associated with the castle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 May 2017

• RO052-024 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a hollow in an undulating landscape. A natural spring in limestone outcrop is known locally as St Bridget's Well and was renowned for a cure of warts, but it was deepened on several occasions and is now visible as a slight hollow, but there is no evidence of veneration. The church at Cloonacille (RO051-018001-) is c. 190m to the SW. 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

At the centre of the townland of Cartron, 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_1518 (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.

No address of the register names Cartron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cartron

Area

664,383 m² (66.44 ha, 164.17 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peters, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Athlone West Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,282 people lived in 1,828 households in the Athlone West Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonakille, Cloongowna, Corramore

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.