Cartronageeragh
Cartronageeragh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymacormick, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Cartrún na gCaorach.
Parcel 62164
- Area
- 1,566 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 136 m².
- 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
- Cartronageeragh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LF013-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a steep NW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) is enclosed from NNW-N-SE by a substantial bank of earth and stone, which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. At its external base is a stream, which marks the townland boundary between Cartronageeragh and Farranyoogan townlands. The rest of the rath has been levelled and only its outline is identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 November 2011
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1717 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 95.4 ha
- 236 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- C6
- Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartronageeragh, from 5 m² to 92,197 m² (9.22 ha, 22.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C6Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 67 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Aug 2025Conditional
the proposed redesign of the previously permitted 3 no. light industrial units granted planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL22/173 to include a reduction in the floor areas of same together with the addition of a 4th adjoining unit to same and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560183
18 Aug 2025N/a
the proposed redesign of the previously permitted 3 no. light industrial units granted planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL22/173 to include a reduction in the floor areas of same together with the addition of a 4th adjoining unit to same and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560179
5 Jun 2025Conditional
the proposed construction of extensions to existing 2 no. industrial unit buildings i.e. units no.’s 01 & 02 and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560113
7 Feb 2025Conditional
the following works to the existing motor sales and service facility: a) the removal of all existing Toyota signage (4 no.) and replacement with 7 new internally illuminated signs comprising 3 freestanding signs and 4 building mounted signs b) all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560022
10 May 2024Conditional
the proposed construction of an extension to the front of an existing warehousing unit which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL00/536 and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460095
5 Jan 2024Conditional
of first floor level floor space and associated alterations created by the addition of a mezzanine within previously approved warehouse
Retention · Longford County Council, 2460003
21 Sept 2023Conditional
proposed single storey extension to the front and side of existing light industrial unit to included amendments to relevant elevations and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2360142
21 Apr 2023Conditional
an extension to existing industrial units building to incorporate 4 No. individual units, proposed connections to the existing services onsite, proposed yard surfacing works and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2360015
15 Jul 2022Conditional
the proposed construction of 3 no. light industrial units , car parking, proposed foul sewer connection into an existing wastewater treatment system with polishing filter which was installed/upgraded under planning permission reference number PL 04/933, extension of duration of planning permission reference numbers PL10/66 & PL 13/177, which services Johnston Business Park and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 22173
1 Apr 2021Refused
to construct a two storey type dwelling, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2187
20 Jun 2019Conditional
proposed construction of a new storage unit to rear of existing building and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19165
10 Nov 2017Conditional
proposed construction of an extension to the rear of existing car sales/repairs garage workshop and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17287
10 Jul 2017Conditional
for the construction of a single storey (493.5m2) extension to Gem 2 (Building) for manufacturing use, Plant/Switchroom, Stores, Ancillary Toilet Facilities together with all associated site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 17190
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
Recorded monuments
- LF013-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a steep NW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) is enclosed from NNW-N-SE by a substantial bank of earth and stone, which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. At its external base is a stream, which marks the townland boundary between Cartronageeragh and Farranyoogan townlands. The rest of the rath has been levelled and only its outline is identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 November 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single-storey house with attic storey, and with entrance elevation facing away from road, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1900. Flat-roofed windbreak porch to the main elevation (southeast) offset to the southwest side of centre. Single-storey outbuilding to the southwest, aligned along axis of main house, having corrugated-metal roof. Pitched artificial slate roof with ridge crestings and with three rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth; smooth rendered vertical strips/bands to corners. Ruled-and-lined rendered finish to windbreak porch. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch with timber battened door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to yard with pitched corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed door opening with cast-iron gate. Rendered garden wall to entrance front (southeast), rendered plinth with metal railings to road elevation (northwest). Set back from road with garden to front and yard to rear, with outbuilding to south gable connecting it to three-bay two-storey house. Located to the southwest of Longford Town.
- House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, on L-shape plan having two-storey return to the rear at the northeast corner, and single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to re-entrant corner of return. Hipped natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed rendered walls, now largely covered with ivy/vegetation. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Central segmental-headed door opening to main elevation (northwest) having timber panelled door with timber side panels, plain overlight and limestone threshold. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southwest of Longford Town. Main entrance gates to the northwest comprising a pair of rebuilt limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with cast-iron double-leaf gates. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage. Wrought-iron railings to approach avenue to house, and to the northwest of house. Rubble stone boundary walls with crenellated coping over to lane to north of house, with hooped flat bar wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to yard to north, with pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs, rendered and rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cartronageeragh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1696 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cartronageeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Cartronageeragh · Cartrún na gCaorach
- Area
- 953,515 m² (95.35 ha, 235.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacormick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Longford Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,685 people lived in 1,964 households in the Longford Rural electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyminion, Clooneeny, Cloontirm, Farranyoogan, Knockanboy, Mullaghavorneen
- Placenames
- Cartronageeragh 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.