Cartron

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 816 m² to 70,922 m² (7.09 ha, 17.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cartron 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cartron 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 the townland of Cartron.

Recorded monuments

• RO003-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf of a S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered but poached area (dims 23.5m NE-SW; 18.5m NW-SE) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.45m) with internal and external facing-stones at NE, and traces of an external fosse (Wth 2-2.5m) visible as a band of rushes S-W-N. The monument is truncated by an overgrown NE-SW field bank at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-053 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. c. 16m) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 5-6.4m; int. H 0.2m at S to 1m at N; ext. H 0.3m at N to 1.4m at S). There are no visible facing stones and there is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-054001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown but poached area (diam. 21m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-1m) NNE-S-W with facing stones SW-W, but merging into the slope W-N. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but a depression (dims. 7.5m NW-SE; 3.5-4m; NE-SW; D 0.2-0.4m) inside the perimeter at SW may be a collapsed souterrain (RO003-054002-). Cashel (RO003-055----) is c. 180m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-054002 Souterrain
  Description

  On the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. A depresssion (dims. 7.5m NW-SE; 3.5-4m; NE-SW; D 0.2-0.4m) inside the perimeter of rath (RO003-054001-) at SW may be a collapsed souterrain. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-055 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a shelf on the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Oval overgrown area (dims. 26m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 0.9m at E to 2.3m at W; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) with intermittently visible facing stones (original Wth 0.8-1.2m). There is no visible entrance and the perimeter at N is incorporated into a field wall. Rath (RO003-054001-) is c. 180m to the SSW. 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.

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

About 1 in 20 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.

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.

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

Name

Cartron

Area

443,406 m² (44.34 ha, 109.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Crossna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossna electoral division: 209 people in 82 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behy, Cleen, Crossna, Fostragh

Placenames

Cartron 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.