Cartronbore

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.

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.

• 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.

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).

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.

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

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.