Commons

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 440 m² to 507,618 m² (50.76 ha, 125.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

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.

• 12 Nov 2015Conditional

  Retention of existing farm layout and structures including: cubicle house, 5 no. dry stores, 2 no. slatted animal houses, 2 no. slatted slurry storage tanks, open slurry storage tank, 2 no. feed passages, feed bin and covered collecting yard. Permission for construction of new animal housing consisting of: cubicle house; feed passage; and calf house, construction of dungstead, new milking parlour consisting of parlour; dairy; plant room and store, new crush and race, new silage storage slab, 2 no. slatted slurry storage tanks, dairy wash tank, and Permission for conversion of dry store to cubicle house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6545

• 14 Oct 2015Incompleted application

  Retention of existing farm layout and structures including: cubicle house, 4 no. dry stores, 2 no. slatted animal houses, 2 no. slatted slurry storage tanks, open slurry storage tank and 2 no. feed passages. Permission for construction of new animal housing consisting of, cubicle house, feed passage; and calf house, new milking parlour consisting of parlour, dairy, plant room and store, new crush and race, new silage storage slab, 2 no. slatted slurry storage tanks, diary wash tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6295

• 23 Feb 2009Conditional

  Dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4530

• 1 Sept 2006Refused

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10219

• 25 Feb 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1080

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• CO043-002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture on SW-facing slope. Low circular cairn (11.5m N-S; 10m E-W; H 0.8m). Many years ago, landowner's father uncovered large stone flags at ESE and WSW sides while attempting to dismantle cairn; subsequently left undisturbed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 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).

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 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 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.

No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Commons · An Coimín

Area

1,566,758 m² (156.68 ha, 387.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnageehy, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Carrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

159 people lived in 53 households in the Carrig electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghvoolia North, Cloghvoolia South, Knoppoge, Lyravarrig, Tooreen

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.