Cashel Commons
Cashel Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Coimín an Chaisil.
- Area
- 27.7 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 26,006 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel Commons, from 551 m² to 76,772 m² (7.68 ha, 18.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cashel Commons 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Oct 2019Conditional
The construction of a single storey extension to an existing single storey dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6481
23 Jul 2018Conditional
(a) Permission for retention of existing partially constructed calving house, (b) permission to complete said calving house, (c) permission to demolish existing cattle house, milking parlour and dairy, (d) permission to construct a replacement cattle house, milking parlour and dairy, (e) permission to construct a plant room , roofed cattle holding yard, calf house, feed storage bin, roadside boundary wall, upgrade existing two no. site entrances, and carry out associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5929
31 Aug 2012Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse including an attached garage and all associated drainage works including septic tank and percolation area and a bored well
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5885
9 May 2007Conditional
Construction of overground slurry tank, slatted tank, cover existing holding yard, construction of walls to existing silage slab, construction of dungstead and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7632
30 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Covering an existing yard, construction of slatted tank and overground slurry tonk
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6718
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 Cashel Commons.
Recorded monuments
- CO110-023 Church
Description
On gentle SE-facing slope. Rectangular structure marked on OS 6-inch map (1842). Rectangular terrace (28m SE-NW; 5m NW-SE) defined by scarp to SE and NE and cut into slope to NW. According to local information, site of church which was dismantled in early 20th century and the stones (CO110-046----) re-used in constructing of farmbuilding in Gaggan townland. Remains of enclosing wall (3m SE-NW;1.3m SW-NE) survives in field fence to SW. Field locally known as "the church field". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cashel Commons.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cashel Commons, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cashel Commons.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cashel Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cashel Commons · Coimín an Chaisil
- Area
- 277,446 m² (27.74 ha, 68.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Cashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 441 people lived in 145 households in the Cashel electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashel More, Farran, Knocknagallagh, Moneens, Tullymurrihy
- Placenames
- Cashel Commons 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.