Cartron

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 279 m² to 121,248 m² (12.12 ha, 29.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for the renovation of an existing single-storey dwelling, including the removal and replacement of internal floors, partitions, doors, windows, and roof; demolition of the existing side extension and detached garage; construction of a new entrance to the dwelling and a two-storey rear extension to accommodate additional household spaces, including an open-plan kitchen/dining/living area, office/gym, utility room, bedrooms, and bathrooms; construction of a replacement detached garage; decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of a new wastewater treatment system at a new location on site; relocation of the existing vehicular entrance to the north-west side of the site; together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560470

• 16 Sept 2025N/a

  Permission for the renovation of an existing single-storey dwelling, including the removal and replacement of internal floor, partitions, doors, windows, and roof; demolition of side extension to accommodate an open-plan kitchen, dining, and sitting area; construction of a new entrance and a two-storey rear extension to include additional household spaces such as office/gym, utility room, bedrooms, and bathrooms; decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of a new wastewater treatment system; relocation of the existing vehicular entrance to the north-west side of the dwelling; together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560448

• 11 Jan 2018Conditional

  The application site is c.3.0 hectares. Permission is sought for a battery energy storage facility which will comprise of rechargeable battery units contained within up to 31 No. 40 foot containers on site and the associated development of unit substations, a 110 kV substation, security fencing, security cameras, lighting mast, new site roads and new vehicular access. The facility will connect into the adjoining Flagford ESB Substation via underground cable. All associated site development, landscaping and boundary treatment works above and below ground. Permission for development within the townland of

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 187

• 21 Dec 2017N/a

  permission is sought for a battery energy storage facility which will comprise of rechargeable battery units contained within up to 31 No. 40 foot containers on site and the associated development of unit substations, a 110KV substation, security fencing, security cameras, lightning mast, new site roads and new vehicular access. The facility will connect into the adjoining Flagford ESB Substation via underground cable. All associated site development, landscaping and boundary treatment works above and below ground on a c. 4.18 hectare site at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17517

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

• RO011-072001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf on a gentle SE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 35m E-W; 27.1m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.95m at W to 1.65m at S) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.2-0.9m) N-S-W, and an outer overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.2m at SW to 0.55m at S; ext. H 0.25m at SW to 1.65m at S) SE-SW. The entrance to souterrain (RO011-072002-) is just W of the centre, and there is a modern causeway entrance at SE, while a shed is built into the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-072002 Souterrain
  Description

  Just W of the centre of rath (RO011-072001-) on a shelf of a gentle SE-facing slope. A lintelled passage (Wth 0.9m; H 1.2m) runs W from its entrance (L c. 10m), before becoming blocked at a turning. It is frequently flooded, and locally is described as having two chambers. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 1m) S-W-N and a scarp (H 1-1.2m) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.9m) SW-N but a drain circumscribes the perimeter E-S. There is no visible entrance. Enclosure (RO011-163----) is c. 190m to the NW. 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1441 (ZIP).

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

1,148,895 m² (114.89 ha, 283.9 acres)

Civil parish

Killummod, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Danesfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Danesfort electoral division: 963 people in 378 households; 60% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corry, Culleenatreen or Flagford, Danesfort, Deerpark, Lodge, Rock

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.