Cartron or Old Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgefin, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon
Parcel 687615
- Area
- 2,719 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 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
- Cartron or Old Glebe
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, 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
- 22.2 ha
- 55 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 50,195 m² (5.02 ha, 12.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron or Old Glebe, from 1,633 m² to 58,328 m² (5.83 ha, 14.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Cartron or Old Glebe 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cartron or Old Glebe 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.
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 Cartron or Old Glebe.
Recorded monuments
- RO036-012001 Church
Description
The parish church of Kilgefin may have been dedicated to a St Guithbhinn according to J. O'Donovan in 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 50), but this saint is not known otherwise (Ó Riain 2011). The church was impropriate to the abbey of Cloontuskert (RO037-001001-) at the Suppression (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 49). It is situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. A small rectangular graveyard (RO036-012003-) (int. dims 41.5m E-W; 33.5m N-S) is defined by an earthen bank with an outer stone facing on all sides except the E is W of the walls of a Church of Ireland church, which was only in use from 1824 to c. 1874, in its own graveyard (Ganly 2009). The older graveyard has two fragment of a pointed door surround with two orders (RO036-012005-) and a grave-slab (RO036-012004-) (dims 2.1m x 0.65-0.83m) which has a low relief carving of a cross with fleur-de-lis terminals and an inscription commemorating Una Dowel with the date 1676 (Siggins 1996b). There are also two simple grave-markers, one (RO036-012006-) (Wth. 0.27m; H 0.6m; T 0.1m) with an incised cross with bar terminals on each face, the other (RO036-012007-) (Wth 0.27m; H 0.7m; T 0.2m) with an inscribed cross which has expanded terminals (Corlett 1998). St James' well (RO012002-), the location of which was known in the 19th century (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 50) is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 September 2015
- RO036-012003 Graveyard
Description
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. A small rectangular graveyard (int. dims 41.5m E-W; 33.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with an outer stone facing on all sides except the E is W of the walls of a Church of Ireland church in its own graveyard. It is the site of the parish church of Kilgefin (RO036-012001-), of which there is little evidence. See the attached view of the old graveyard looking W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO036-012004 Graveslab
Description
A graveslab (dims 2.1m x 0.65-0.83m) which has a low relief carving of a cross with fluer-de-lis terminals commemorating Una Dowel with the date 1676 is in the graveyard (RO036-012003-) of Kilgefin church (RO036-012001-). (Corlett 1998, 137-8; Siggins 1996b). See attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO036-012005 Architectural fragment
Description
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. A small rectangular graveyard (RO036-012003-) at Kilgefin church site (RO036-012001-) beside an abandoned Church of Ireland church in its own enclosure has two fragments of a pointed doorway surround of two orders (Corlett 1998). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO036-012006 Cross-inscribed stone
Description
The small rectangular graveyard (RO036-012003-) of Kilgeffin church (RO036-012001-) has two simple grave-markers, one (Wth. 0.27m; H 0.6m; T 0.1m) with an incised cross with bar terminals on each face, the other (RO036-012007-) with an inscised cross which has expanded terminals (Corlett 1998, 137-8). See attached image Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO036-012007 Cross-inscribed stone
Description
The small rectangular graveyard (RO036-012003-) of Kilgeffin church (RO036-012001-) has two simple grave-markers, one (RO036-012006-) with an incised cross with bar terminals on each face, the other (Wth 0.27m; H 0.7m; T 0.2m) with an inscised cross which has expanded terminals (Corlett 1998, 137-8). See attached image 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 Cartron or Old Glebe.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cartron or Old Glebe.
- 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 Cartron or Old Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cartron or Old Glebe
- Area
- 222,232 m² (22.22 ha, 54.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgefin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Kilgefin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilgefin electoral division: 300 people in 119 households; 91% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghamuck, Carroward, Fairymount, New Glebe, Tuam
- Placenames
- Cartron or Old Glebe 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.