Abbeycartron
Townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 13.1 ha
- 32 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 935 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeycartron, from 83 m² to 66,540 m² (6.65 ha, 16.44 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M5Outer Core (Other mix of uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 9 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 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the provision of an extension to the Western side elevation and North Western rear elevation of the existing dwellinghouse, with material alterations and refurbishment works to the existing dwellinghouse, including demolition of existing shed to the rear of the dwellinghouse, all site works and ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21214
7 Apr 2021N/a
for development consisting of the provision of an extension to the Western side elevation and North Western rear elevation of the existing dwellinghouse, with material alterations and refurbishment works to the existing dwellinghouse, including all site works and ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21172
23 Sept 2020N/a
Part 8 of Planning & Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) Elphin Town Centre Public Realm Enhancement & Redevelopment of the former Courthouse
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20374
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 Abbeycartron.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Abbeycartron.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Abbeycartron.
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 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 Abbeycartron.
- 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 Abbeycartron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Abbeycartron
- Area
- 130,700 m² (13.07 ha, 32.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Elphin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Elphin electoral division: 893 people in 371 households; 63% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Elphin
- Placenames
- Abbeycartron 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.