# Commons, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Quin, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish An Coimín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 31,741 m² (3.17 ha, 7.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,868 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G1 Open Space, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Quin, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/quin.md - Barony: Bunratty Upper - Electoral division: Quin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,524 people lived in 533 households in the Quin electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7966 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30783 - Centre: latitude 52.820658, longitude -8.863367 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 8,291 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres) to 16,706 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1434911: 16,706 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434911.md - Parcel 1517828: 8,868 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517828.md - Parcel 1476933: 8,291 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476933.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Quin Settlement Plan, Clare; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Quin Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - S3 Community (Community facilities): Quin Settlement Plan, Clare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Feb 2022, Clare County Council 228000: Unconditional. Permission. Proposes to carry out the following development. The development consists of a flood defence protecting three properties in Quin Co Clare. The defence consists of two sections of earthen embankment and a reinforced concrete wall. The reinforced concrete wall section is approximately 120m long, with a maximum height of 2.2m. To the south a 2m high embankment extends approximately 80m to higher ground. To the north a less than 1m high embankment extends approximately 20m to highter ground. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project and has determinined that a full Appropriate Assessment is not required in respect of the project. An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) screening determination has been made and concludes that there is no real likelihood of signigicant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/228000/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Commons. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL042-027005: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL042-027005-. On an E-facing slope on the NW bank of the River Rine in an undulating field with some rock outcrop. Named 'Toberinneenboy' on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and 'Toberinneenboy (Site of)' on the 1922 edition. An overgrown area (diam. c. 4m) around a tree at this location has some rocks at the base but no stone setting is evident and there is no sign of a spring. The following images have been uploaded: CL042-027005-_01.jpg Holy well site from W. CL042-027005-_02.jpg Holy well site from N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 May 2018 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Commons, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_692, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_692.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/commons-30783.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/commons-30783.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/commons-30783.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Creevagh More: https://everytownland.com/clare/creevagh-more.md - Danganbrack: https://everytownland.com/clare/danganbrack.md - Knocknagoug: https://everytownland.com/clare/knocknagoug.md - Quin: https://everytownland.com/clare/quin.md - Quingardens: https://everytownland.com/clare/quingardens.md - Quinville South: https://everytownland.com/clare/quinville-south.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/commons-30783 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/commons-30783