# Commons, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knocktemple, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish An Coimín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 752,102 m² (75.21 ha, 185.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,773 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knocktemple, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/knocktemple.md - Barony: Duhallow - Electoral division: Knocktemple, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10696 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41668 - Centre: latitude 52.277082, longitude -8.85742 (WGS 84) ## 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2315795: 364,981 m² (36.5 ha, 90.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2315795.md - Parcel 4316458: 353,896 m² (35.39 ha, 87.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4316458.md - Parcel 2169284: 7,096 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2169284.md - Parcel 2169280: 5,515 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2169280.md - Parcel 2315797: 4,116 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2315797.md - Parcel 2315794: 4,095 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2315794.md - Parcel 2169279: 3,450 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2169279.md - Parcel 2315796: 2,391 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2315796.md - Parcel 2169283: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2169283.md - Parcel 2169281: 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2169281.md - Parcel 2503897: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503897.md - Parcel 2503896: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2503896.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 11 Aug 2025, Cork County Council 25/5604: Conditional permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5604 - 15 Aug 2024, Cork County Council 24/5540: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct a new dwelling house & detached domestic garage.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5540 - 16 Aug 2019, Cork County Council 19/6046: Conditional. Permission. Construct a dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6046 - 2 Nov 2018, Cork County Council 18/6902: Conditional. Permission. Construct a dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/6902 - 14 May 2007, Cork County Council 07/7781: Conditional. Permission. Domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/7781 - 20 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/12478: Conditional. Permission. Construction of overground slurry store. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/12478 - 23 Nov 2004, Cork County Council 04/8627: Conditional. Permission. Slatted Beef Unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/8627 - 2 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/5004: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/5004 - 1 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/4963: Conditional. Permission. Slatted beef unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/4963 - 27 Feb 2004, Cork County Council 04/1216: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/1216 - 30 Jun 2003, Cork County Council 03/3209: Conditional. Permission. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/3209 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) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons. ## 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 10 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_701, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_701.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/cork/commons-41668.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/commons-41668.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/commons-41668.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. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinla: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballinla.md - Cappanagoul: https://everytownland.com/cork/cappanagoul.md - Freemount: https://everytownland.com/cork/freemount.md - Knockaneda: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockaneda.md - Knockeen: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockeen-43778.md - Knocknamuck: https://everytownland.com/cork/knocknamuck-43868.md - Lyre: https://everytownland.com/cork/lyre-44252.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/cork/commons-41668 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/commons-41668