Cartrons
Cartrons is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommock, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Cartrún Cloch.
Parcel 76840
- Area
- 69,819 m² (6.98 ha, 17.25 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
- Cartrons
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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
- 103.3 ha
- 255 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 34,484 m² (3.45 ha, 8.52 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartrons, from 260 m² to 97,653 m² (9.77 ha, 24.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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
- R2Residential (Existing residential)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 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
30 Mar 2026Conditional
the proposed change of bungalow type dwelling house design from what was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference no. pl21/7 and granted extension of duration of time granted under pl25/46 & all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660098
7 Oct 2025Unconditional
of PL 21/7 - proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2546
15 Jan 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 217
7 Nov 2018Conditional
proposed retention & completion of existing partially constructed two storey type dwelling house known as dwelling house No. 1 which was previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL04/967 on Site No. 1 and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18252
20 Jun 2018N/a
proposed retention and completion of existing entrance to be used to service existing two storey detached type dwelling house which is constructed on site number 6 and which was granted full permission under Planning Reference Number PL04/967 and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 18129
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 Cartrons.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cartrons.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cartrons.
- 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 Cartrons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Cartrons · Cartrún Cloch
- Area
- 1,032,908 m² (103.29 ha, 255.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moydow
- Electoral division
- Kilcommock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- 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.