Cartrons

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartrons, from 202 m² to 106,953 m² (10.7 ha, 26.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Cartrons 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.

• 9 Jun 2023Conditional

  an amendment to the previously approved development (Planning Reference 17/47- Appeal Reference PL.14.248470). The amendment application will seek to vary the wording of Condition No 5 of planning permission 17/47 in relation to access for the delivery of components to the Solar Farm.

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360044

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  to amend the design of the consented substation and relocate the customer cabin and one CCTV camera within the approved development (Planning Reference: 17/47) which comprises consent for the development of a solar farm with an export capacity of 11.1 MW comprising of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames with associated infrastructure including 7 no. invertor cabins, 1 no. control building, 1 no. customer cabin, 1 no. DNO substation, temporary construction compound, ducting and electrical cabling, perimeter agricultural fencing, CCTV cameras and internal access tracks

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21226

• 17 Feb 2017Refused

  for a solar farm with an export capacity of 11.1MW comprising of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames with associated infrastructure including 7 no. inverter cabins, 1 no. control building, 1 no. customer cabin, 1 no. DNO sub-station, temporary construction compound, ducting and electrical cabling, perimeter agricultural fencing, mounted CCTV cameras and internal access tracks. This application is for a 10 year permission at a site within the townland of

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1747

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 Cartrons.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Close to the highest point of a prominent ridge. Named 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. and depicted as a circular enclosure on it and the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument was levelled in the early 1970s (local information). While not visible at ground level, its outline is clearly evident on aerial photograhps (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 February 2012

• LF013-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet low-lying pasture. A raised roughly oval area (48.7m NNW-SSE; 33.1m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4m; H 1.1m max.) with a shallow, waterlogged, external fosse (Wth 2.9m; D 0.3m). From W-N-NNE the circuit and morphology of the bank have been modified where it is incorporated into a NE-SW field boundary. A break (Wth 1.7m) in the bank at ENE with traces of an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. The ground level of the NE half of the interior is considerably higher than that of the SW half. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cartrons, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1694 (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.

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

Name

Cartrons · Na Cartrúin

Area

1,277,233 m² (127.72 ha, 315.61 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Caldragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,690 people lived in 937 households in the Caldragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh, Ballyminion, Cleggill, Demesne, Lisbrack, Lismore, Moneylagan, Mullagh

Placenames

Cartrons 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.