Cartron

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 672 m² to 253,238 m² (25.32 ha, 62.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  for change of use of part of the existing national school to a before school/afterschool and preschool facility

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661419

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 153.6 sqm & (garage) 59.6 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18295

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

• GA116-021 Church
  Description

  In marshy pastureland. Named 'R.C. Chapel (in ruins) on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a small rectangular building within a graveyard (GA116-021001-). On the 1920 edition of the map only a short section of one wall, aligned roughly E-W, is shown. On inspection only a pile of overgrown rubble is all that remained of the chapel. An E-W running field wall divided the graveyard and it is possible that one of the side-walls may be incorporated into it. No cut stone or architectural features were visible. A holy well (GA116-026----) lies c. 170m to the SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 January 2020

• GA116-021001 Graveyard
  Description

  This almost square graveyard (c. 35m E-W; c. 34m N-S), which is enclosed by a stone wall, is associated with a chapel (GA116-021----) and is still in use. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 January 2020

• GA116-022 Quarry
  Description

  In wet pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA116-023 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On the E bank of a dredged stream in rolling pastureland, c. 175m SE of a church (GA116-021----). This natural spring well was regarded locally as a holy well but it has not been used as such for many years. On inspection, apart from a large limestone slab, which once covered it, no visible trace of the well survived. The adjacent stream was overgrown. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2023

• GA116-024 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2015

• GA116-026 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Family, church/chapel, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, dated 1958, having seven-bay nave, lower single-bay chancel, flat-roofed projecting confessionals to long walls of nave, porch to west elevation, sacristy to east elevation, and square-plan ed three-stage belfry tower slightly recessed to south end of front elevation. Slate roofs, pitched to nave and chancel and pyramidal to tower, with decorative render, and cast-iron cross finials. Wetdashed rendered walls with smooth rendered eaves course and plinth course. Walls of tower are battered. Smooth rendered walls to top stage of tower with round-headed two-light arcading to eacf face, and render impost course. Decorative smooth render cross to confessional projections. Round-headed window openings, having stained-glass windows and render sills. Three-light window over main doorway. Round-headed main doorway with raised render surround, having double-leaf timber battened door with stained-glass fanlight, and flanked by pair of round-headed narrow windows. Marble recessed holy water stoup to jamb of doorway. Interior has barrel-shaped ceiling, rendered gallery supported on arcade of round and segmental arches, with moulded decorative panels. Round chancel arch, and marble altar. Timber confessionals set into walls of nave, having moulded render surround and timber pilasters to openings. Priests' graves to site. Pedestrian entrance and vehicular entrance, both without gates, formed by tapered rendered piers with pointed caps, with rendered boundary walls.

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 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 Cartron.

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. Galway.

Name

Cartron · An Cartrún

Area

851,187 m² (85.12 ha, 210.33 acres)

Civil parish

Duniry, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Bracklagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

495 people lived in 171 households in the Bracklagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyscully, Brackery, Bracklagh Grange, Carrowcreevanagh, Cloonlee, Lisheen North

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.