Cartown

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartown, from 13 m² to 73,249 m² (7.32 ha, 18.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Cartown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cartown 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cartown.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position c. 30m from a SE-NW section of a small S-N stream. This monument is visible as a D-shaped feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 4/1043-4). It is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 33m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.6m generally to 1.1m at S) and a slight external fosse (Wth 2.1-2.5m; max. D 0.5m). There is a straight side at W and the straight S side is formed by an old E-W stream bed. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in improved pasture, towards the bottom of a S-facing slope, but it is surrounded by higher ground within 300-600m. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a D-shaped area (dims 20m E-W; 9m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (at NE: Wth of base 5.1m; Wth of top 2m; int. H 0.25; ext. H 0.4m) and outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 7.3m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.25m) WSW-N-ENE. The monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW drain and field bank with hedge at S, and there is no evidence of the monument beyond this boundary. There is no evidence of an original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 May, 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cartown.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1455 (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.

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

Name

Cartown · Cartha

Area

378,175 m² (37.82 ha, 93.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Carrick-On-Shannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrick-On-Shannon electoral division: 4,445 people in 1,721 households; 56% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamony, Caldragh, Cloonsheebane, Cloonsheerevagh, Corhawnagh, Drumlumman, Hartley

Placenames

Cartown 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.