Cartron

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cartron, from 556 m² to 426,859 m² (42.69 ha, 105.48 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 Jun 2025N/a

  proposed construction of a Agricultural machinery storage shed to secure agricultural equipment inclusive of all ancillary site works and services as per site layout plan

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560303

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  development which will consist/consists of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 140 hectares consisting of the following: 781,578sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 17 hardstanding locations for the installation of electrical skids; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-5802, R-393, L-5913, L-1811 and the L-5808 public roads; a new access point and an upgrade to an existing access point along the R-393 public road and a new access point along the L-5808 public road; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; boundary fencing; and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460050

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  The development will consist of a new 2 storey dwelling with garage, with access provided via existing driveway, with septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22120

• 2 Mar 2022N/a

  The development will consist of a new 2 storey dwelling with garage, with access provided via existing driveway, with septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2288

• 31 Mar 2021Refused

  for new 2 storey dwelling with garage, septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21162

• 6 Oct 2020Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a partial two storey extension to an existing two storey dwelling. The development will also include minor works to existing fenestration, new polishing filter to existing treatment system and all site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206273

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM018-005 Mound
  Description

  Situated on reclaimed grassland, c. 170m to SE of the Royal Canal. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Identified by aerial photography in 1973 as a series of four oblong, roughly rectangular-shaped mounds and three roughly square-shaped mounds which are visible inside a large oval-shaped enclosure (WM018-005001-) (AP taken October 1973). Described in 1983 as a long, low roughly rectangular-shaped mound and enclosure. There are some humps and hollows near it. It is possible that these features are the result of quarrying and earth removal. Some of it may also represent the dumping of debris from the construction or drainage of the canal. There is nothing to indicate that it is a burial mound or any other archaeological feature. Monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as three roughly square-shaped mounds (approx. max. dims. 12m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW) closely arranged off-centre to SE within enclosure (WM018-005001-) and four oblong, roughly rectangular-shaped mounds (approx. max. dims. 28m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) to SW, NW, N and E, also within the enclosure. See attached aerial photograph taken in 1973 Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 January 2019

• WM018-005001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on reclaimed grassland, c. 170m to SE of the Royal Canal. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Identified by aerial photography in 1973 as a large oval enclosure containing a series of four oblong, roughly rectangular earthworks and three roughly square earthworks (WM018-005----) (AP taken October 1973). Monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a large, oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 90m NW-SE; 68m NE-SW) containing three roughly square-shaped mounds closely arranged off-centre to SE and four oblong, roughly rectangular-shaped mounds to SW, NW, N and E. See attached aerial photograph taken in 1973 Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 10 January 2019

Architectural heritage

• Cartron House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, now vacant. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Wet dash walls over plinth course. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds and stone sills having timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening with dressed limestone block-and-start surround, plain glass fanlight and timber door. Modern built house to north with gravel forecourt and driveway winding to road. Located to the south of Ballynacarrigy, close to the banks of the Royal Canal.

• 29th Lock, lock keeper's house, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey canal lock keeper's house, built c.1809. Now in use as a private dwelling with extension to rear (south). Hipped natural slate roof with projecting stone eaves course and a central rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, set in recessed round-headed arches, with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed doorcase to centre, set in round-headed recessed round-headed arch, having battened timber half door. Located adjacent to lock 29 (15401833).

• Sonna National School, school, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height national school, dated 1953, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed recessed flanking entrance/toilet/cloakroom blocks to either end (north and south). Three-bay single-storey flat-roofed playshed and two-storey water tower (on square plan) to the northwest. Hipped natural slate roof with (slightly) sprocketed eaves having clay ridge tiles, central rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofs to entrance/toilet blocks with timber eaves. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Cut-limestone date stone/plaque to centre of main façade (east). Grouped (two sets of three arrangement) square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement windows (originally three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars). Square-headed door openings on two concrete steps with projecting splayed reveals supporting concrete canopy having timber panelled doors. Set back from road in own grounds having tarmac yard to front east. Bounded to road-frontage by rendered boundary wall having rendered gate piers, iron double gates and rendered stiles.

• 29th Lock, lock, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock, built c.1809, consisting of a (restored) pair of timber and steel gates and timber balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock channel. Timber mooring posts to both banks. Located adjacent to attendant lock keeper's house (15401822).

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 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. Westmeath.

Name

Cartron

Area

1,479,585 m² (147.96 ha, 365.61 acres)

Civil parish

Templeoran, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Sonna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Sonna electoral division: 357 people in 123 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calliaghstown, Gaddrystown, Kildallan, Kildallan North, Kill, Simonstown

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.