Commons
Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Knocktemple, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Coimín.
- Area
- 75.2 ha
- 186 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,773 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 247 m² to 364,981 m² (36.5 ha, 90.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 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
11 Aug 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct an extension consisting of kitchen and living room with new front porch and redesign of front elevation of existing bungalow, permission to construct a detached domestic garage, new entrance along with upgrade of waste water treatment plant & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5604
15 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house & detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5540
16 Aug 2019Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6046
2 Nov 2018Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6902
14 May 2007Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7781
20 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of overground slurry store
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12478
23 Nov 2004Conditional
Slatted Beef Unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8627
2 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5004
1 Jul 2004Conditional
Slatted beef unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4963
27 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1216
30 Jun 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3209
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 Commons.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of 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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_701 (ZIP).
- 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 Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Commons · An Coimín
- Area
- 752,102 m² (75.21 ha, 185.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knocktemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Knocktemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 510 people lived in 185 households in the Knocktemple electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinla, Cappanagoul, Freemount, Knockaneda, Knockeen, Knocknamuck, Lyre
- Placenames
- 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.