Cartronbore
Townland in the civil parish of Granard, barony of Granard, Co. Longford; in Irish Cartrún an Bhóthair
Parcel 60751
- Area
- 117,272 m² (11.73 ha, 28.98 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
- Cartronbore
Planning applications on this parcel
6 Aug 2026N/a
to construct a dormer type dwelling house along with a detached garage for domestic use sewage treatment plants and percolation areas and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660246
6 Aug 2026N/a
to construct a dormer type dwelling house along with a detached garage for domestic use sewage treatment plants and percolation areas and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660247
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LF006-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a shelf of level ground on a NE-facing slope. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by two low banks of earth and stone with external fosses. The original entrance was probably at SSE. The rath has since been levelled but its outline is clearly visible on aerial photographs (see attachment). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF010-018 Linear earthwork
Description
In pasture. Marked on all editions of the OS 6-inch map running in a NW–SE direction between Lough Gowna and Lough Kinale, a distance of c. 10.6km (Keegan 2010). Where best preserved, in the NW of Cartronbore townland, it comprises two substantial banks of earth and stone (Wth c. 8m; H c. 1.2m), similar in morphology, with a wide, steep-sided, flat-bottomed, intermediate fosse (Wth 7m; D c. 1m). However, almost all other sections of it have been levelled to a greater or lesser extent but its circuit is preserved in field boundaries and drains. The precise function of this linear earthwork is unknown though according to local tradition, it was seen as the territorial boundary between the provinces of Ulster and Leinster and between the Gaelic regions of Annaly and Breifne (Farrell 1891, 270). It seems more likely that it functioned as a territorial boundary marker rather than a defensive frontier line. (ITA Survey 1944; English 1971, 150; Williams 1989, 12–19; Columb 2002, 20–6; O’Donovan 2003, 24; Keegan 2010; CUCAP, AJO 50) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 2 March 2012
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 91.8 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 34,426 m² (3.44 ha, 8.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartronbore, from 549 m² to 237,251 m² (23.73 ha, 58.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cartronbore 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
6 Aug 2026N/a
to construct a dormer type dwelling house along with a detached garage for domestic use sewage treatment plants and percolation areas and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660246
6 Aug 2026N/a
to construct a dormer type dwelling house along with a detached garage for domestic use sewage treatment plants and percolation areas and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660247
2 Sept 2020Conditional
demolition of existing derelict dwelling house and outhouses and construction of a walled silage pit along with all ancillary siteworks
Permission · Longford County Council, 20193
2 Sept 2020Conditional
demolish existing farm building and construct a walled silage pit along with all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20194
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cartronbore.
Recorded monuments
- LF011-013 Standing stone
Description
Within a slight hollow in low-lying pasture. This small, sandstone slab (H 1.14m; Wth 1m; T 0.33m) is aligned NW-SE. (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2012
- LF011-014 Standing stone
Description
On a N-facing slope in pasture. Not indicated on the 1837 or 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map but shown on the 1914 ed. A report in 1978 (SMR file) recorded that this limestone slab was upright and was aligned NW-SE. It is now recumbent (L 1.7m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.4m). Another standing stone (LF011-062----) lies c. 300m to the NW. (ITA Survey 1944; English 1971, 153) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2012
- LF011-016 Stone circle
Description
On a gentle NW-facing slope in undulating pasture. A subcircular area (c. 28m NW-SE; c. 24.9m NE-SW) defined by nine glacial erratics: two are upright, four are recumbent but were probably originally in an upright position, and three consist of large irregularly shaped boulders. The uprights are at WSW (H 1.36m) and NW (H 1.55m). The recumbent stones are at NE (L 2.3m), SSE (L 2.2m), S (L 2.5m) and WNW (L c. 2.2m). The stone at WNW is broken into two unequal pieces. The remaining three boulders are at ENE (one) and SE (two). At NNW is a spread of small and medium-sized stones (5.7m x 4.2m). Two low erratics were noted c. 5.7m and c. 19m to the SE of the monument. (ITA Survey 1944; Ó Nualláin 1975, 111; O'Donovan 2003, 20; Moore 2007, No. 5) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2012 See attached plan and elevation of the monument (LF011-016----_01.pdf) and an aerial photograph (LF011-016----_01.jpg).
- LF011-062 Standing stone
Description
On a gentle NE-facing slope. This monument comprised a low, subrectangular upright ((H 0.98m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.65m), aligned WNW-ESE, with a number of packing-stones at its baAnother standing stone (LF011-014----) lies c. 300m to the SE.se. It has since been removed (pers. comm. S. Warrilow) and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cartronbore.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cartronbore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cartronbore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Cartronbore · Cartrún an Bhóthair
- Area
- 918,211 m² (91.82 ha, 226.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Granard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Abbeylara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Abbeylara electoral division: 351 people in 137 households; 76% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinrud East, Ballynacross, Carragh, Creevy, Springtown, Toberfelim
- Placenames
- Cartronbore 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.