Cartronplank
Townland in the civil parish of Ahamlish, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Cartún Plainc
- Area
- 56.2 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 20,047 m² (2 ha, 4.95 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartronplank, from 50 m² to 68,476 m² (6.85 ha, 16.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 7 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
24 Nov 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a slatted house with ancillary concrete slab, and to widen existing access, including all ancillary site works and services on this site at the above address
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560493
11 Nov 2025N/a
I Mattie Loughlin intend to apply to Sligo County Council for Planning Permission to construct a slatted house with ancillary concrete slap including all ancillary site works and services at Cartronplank, Cliffoney Co Sligo
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2512
29 Jul 2022Conditional
development consisting of the following: (1) construction of extension to south east elevation, (2) alterations to north east, north west and south west elevations, (3) upgrade of existing septic tank to new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area all to existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22263
2 Mar 2022N/a
Development consisting of: 1. construction of extension to south east elevation, 2. alterations to north east, north west and south west elevations all to existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2279
20 Jan 2017Refused
development consisting of the retention of a single storey domestic garage (130.5m2 area) as constructed on site which differs in size and location from that permitted under planning permission reference number PL 12/62 and associated works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 1713
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 Cartronplank.
Recorded monuments
- SL002-018 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012
- SL002-053 Bullaun stone
Description
Located in a private garden. Irregular-shaped block of stone (0.78m x c. 0.6m; H 0.27m) with a circular depression (Diam. 0.39m; D 0.10m) in its upper surface. The sides of the depression are rather rough and slope to meet a flat base. The stone has been painted white. The stone was found c. 50m NW of its current location, buried in the ground a few meters W of a court tomb (SL002-018----). There is a rath (SL002-017----) c. 130m to N. Attached image: SL005-053----_01.JPG Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 Oct 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cartronplank.
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 20 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 Cartronplank.
- 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 Cartronplank with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cartronplank · Cartún Plainc
- Area
- 561,711 m² (56.17 ha, 138.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ahamlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Cliffony North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cliffony North electoral division: 1,000 people in 394 households; 79% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincastle, Ballinphull, Cartronkillerdoo, Cloonerco, Creevymore, Drumfad
- Placenames
- Cartronplank 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.