# Commons, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Coimín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 453,647 m² (45.36 ha, 112.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,874 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmichael, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmichael.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Carrigboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 536 people lived in 174 households in the Carrigboy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9788 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41669 - Centre: latitude 51.814885, longitude -9.096751 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 139 m² to 122,275 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2141050: 122,275 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2141050.md - Parcel 2341652: 57,157 m² (5.72 ha, 14.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2341652.md - Parcel 2341653: 51,236 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2341653.md - Parcel 5299191: 46,920 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5299191.md - Parcel 5053949: 34,828 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5053949.md - Parcel 2141049: 4,929 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2141049.md - Parcel 2141048: 1,281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2141048.md - Parcel 5000874: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000874.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) 6 applications, newest first. - 17 Feb 2020, Cork County Council 20/4295: Conditional. Permission. To construct 2 glamping pods for short term holiday letting.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4295 - 22 Jan 2020, Cork County Council 20/4075: Incompleted application. Permission. To construct 2 Glamping pods for short term holiday letting.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4075 - 25 Mar 2013, Cork County Council 13/177: Conditional. Permission. Permission for retention and permission for completion of relocated entrance to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/177 - 24 Jan 2013, Cork County Council 13/35: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for retention and permission for completion of relocated entrance to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/35 - 27 Jun 2011, Cork County Council 11/376: Conditional. Permission. to construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, access driveway off existing private laneway and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/376 - 23 May 2011, Cork County Council 11/302: Incompleted application. Permission. Construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, access driveway off existing private laneway and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/302 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) - CO082-062: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO082-062----. In rough pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Stone (H 1.5m; 1m x 0.4m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO082-113: Mass-rock, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO082-113----. In pasture sheltered by trees. According to local information, a mass-rock was located on a raised triangular area (8m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4m) in the SW corner of a field. The field is known locally as the 'altar field', though there is no evidence of an altar stone. A lintelled wall cup-board (Wth 0.7m; H 0.6m; D 0.75m) is built into the W end of the boundary wall at the S. A holly tree grows from a collection of mainly small stones piled randomly against the S wall to the E of the wall cup-board. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009 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 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 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 Commons. - 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-41669.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/commons-41669.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/commons-41669.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) - Carrigdangan: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrigdangan.md - Derrygortnacloghy: https://everytownland.com/cork/derrygortnacloghy.md - Gortatanavally: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortatanavally.md - Gortnalour: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnalour-43031.md - Johnstown: https://everytownland.com/cork/johnstown-43255.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-41669 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/commons-41669