Cartron

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 243 m² to 63,518 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560389

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559

• 8 Jul 2024Refused

  Permission for the erection of dwelling house and domestic garage with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area, and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460312

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

• RO045-178 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m WNW-ESE; 35.8m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.7-6.5m; int. H 0.55-0.8m; ext. H 1.1-1.55m), partly obscured by spoil. There is no visible fosse and the entrance cannot be identified. There are lazy-beds and some quarries in the interior. Cashel (RO045-177001-) is c. 90m to the WSW and rath (RO045-179----)is c. 110m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-179 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of the SE-facing slope of a hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.9m NW-SE; 32.8m NE-SW) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.3m; int. H 0.15-0.9m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.9m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 0.5m) WSW-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at E. Rath (RO045-178----) is c. 110m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-181 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 37.7m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with whitethorn bushes (at SW: Wth 6.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) which is best preserved (at NE: Wth 6m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.2m) NW-S. The entrance (Wth 2.6m) is at S, and there are slight traces of a fosse S-SSW and at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-182 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise on a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.3m NNE-SSW; 29.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank with whitethorn bushes (at NNE: Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) which is frequently reduced to a scarp (at SSW: H 1.3m), and slight traces of a fosse N-NE. The entrance (Wth 3.4m) is at SSW and field stones lie on the perimeter NE-E-SSW. Rath (RO045-183----) is c. 70m to the SE. 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 5 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.

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

772,917 m² (77.29 ha, 190.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoom, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockhill electoral division: 436 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bredagh, Carrigan More, Lisfelim, Srahauns

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.