Commons
Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Templemartin, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Coimín.
- Area
- 116.3 ha
- 287 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 7,148 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 299 m² to 62,289 m² (6.23 ha, 15.39 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
4 Feb 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4199
29 Nov 2007Conditional
Retention of entrance serving 2 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12731
26 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Retention of commons entrance layout
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11953
11 May 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted house incorporating easi feed unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7724
16 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Construction of slatted house incorporating easy feed unit to replace existing open slurry pit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6183
5 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of cattle house comprising of straw bedded area, slatted slurry tank and feed passage and construction of concrete silage base and apron
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12994
2 Jun 2006Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7790
11 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/1480
19 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and effluent treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/973
25 Jul 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3733
24 Apr 2003Conditional
Dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1912
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 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of 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 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
- 1,163,378 m² (116.34 ha, 287.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemartin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Templemartin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 836 people lived in 262 households in the Templemartin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boggra, Commons, Glannarouge West, Knockadooma, Laghtneill, Lisnagat, Mossgrove
- 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.