Caran

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caran, from 153 m² to 127,556 m² (12.76 ha, 31.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Caran 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.

• 21 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission for 1. The development will consist of the construction of an extension to the side of the existing dwelling house. 2. Alterations to the existing dwelling. These alterations include the installation of a new staircase to facilitate an attic conversion, the modification of existing window and door openings throughout the dwelling, and the provision of three new velux roof windows to the rear. The works will also include all associated site development and ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2629

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a slatted cubicle shed to tie-in with existing slatted shed with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21344

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a new slatted shed, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20199

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, garage and foul treatment system, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17518

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 Caran.

Recorded monuments

• RO034-018001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the summit of a WNW-ESE ridge. Described as a rectangular mound (dims of top c. 4.2m x 4.2m; dims of base c. 6.5m x c. 6.5m; H c. 0.9m) within a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 16m x 16m) defined by fosse (Wth c. 1m; D c. 0.0.7m) and an outer earthen bank (Wth c. 1.8m) which is reputed to have had a standing stone (RO034-018002-) on the central mound (Knox 1911, 339-340). This is a circular grass-covered and flat-topped mound (diam. of top 4.8m NW-SE; diam. of base 7.1m NW-SE; H 0.8-0.9m) on top of a broader circular platform (diam. of top 14.8m NW-SE; diam. of base 19m NW-SE; H 0.7-0.85m). It is enclosed in a rectangular, scrub-covered area (dims c. 25m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) defined by a flat-topped earthen field bank (Wth of top 1.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.6m). There is no evidence of a standing stone. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-018002 Standing stone
  Description

  At the summit of an WNW-ESE ridge, and on top of ring-barrow (RO034-018001-). According to Knox (1911, 339) this barrow had a standing stone on the central mound, but it is not visible now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Caran.

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 Caran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Caran · An Cárán

Area

1,355,197 m² (135.52 ha, 334.88 acres)

Civil parish

Drumatemple, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Castleteheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleteheen electoral division: 324 people in 131 households; 96% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashpark, Brackloon, Enfield, Foghanagh Beg, Foghanagh More, Gortboy, Newtown

Placenames

Caran 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.