Caltragh More

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caltragh More, from 288 m² to 188,147 m² (18.81 ha, 46.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Caltragh More 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.

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  revised plans for 4 bay slatted shed with dry bedded area, with one side of the shed continuing by an additional 4 bays to cover part of existing open yard. Planning was previously granted under planning register reference 19/33. Revisions consist of increasing the overall width of the north end 4 bays by 4.8m along with the introduction of feeding barriers and 8ft overhang to the north east elevation, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2130

• 11 Feb 2019Conditional

  to 1). demolish existing silage pit along with adjoining roofed storage area, 2). construct a 4 bay slatted shed with dry bedded area, with one side of the shed continuing by an additional 4 bays to cover part of existing open yard, 3). construct a walled silage pit, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1933

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 Caltragh More.

Recorded monuments

• LF021-037 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a low, natural rise in pasture. Named 'Caltragh Castle' on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In 1836-7 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books for the parish of Cashel in the barony of Rathcline recorded that the ‘ruins of an old castle are to be seen at the west end of the village’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 12). The Ordnance Survey recorded that the building known locally as ‘Caltromore Old Castle was ‘about 1 chain [20m] long by about ½ a chain [10m] broad. Nothing remains but the foundations’ (OSNB, Cashel parish, 1836-7, book 3, no. 13). It has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 June 2016

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, having full-height canted bays to either end of the front elevation (northwest). Hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings and two central rendered chimneystacks. Pitched roof to centre of rear elevation (southeast) having terracotta ridge crestings. Chamfered corners to ends of slates. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered quoins to ground floor; and rendered eaves course to canted bays with blocking course over and rendered string courses between floors. Square-headed openings having one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to canted end-bays, tripartite window to centre-bay, first floor, having one-over-one timber sliding sash central window with flanking one-over-one pane coloured glass windows, all with painted limestone sills and having lined-and-ruled voussoirs effect over. Central square-headed opening with glazed overlights and sidelights flanking timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Newtown-Cashel. Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the northwest. Pedestrian gateway to the northwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered caps and single leaf replacement timber gate.

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

At the centre of the townland of Caltragh More, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caltragh More.

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.

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

Name

Caltragh More · An Chealdrach Mhór

Area

831,041 m² (83.1 ha, 205.35 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

278 people lived in 114 households in the Cashel East electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnacross, Ballina, Cloonmee, Cornadowagh, Lightfield, Streamstown

Placenames

Caltragh More 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.