Commons
Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Ballydeloughy, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Coimín.
- Area
- 10.5 ha
- 26 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 1,808 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 294 m² to 3,226 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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
27 May 2015Conditional
New fattening house (as previously permitted under planning Ref. No. 07/5822), farrowing house extension and outloading area
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5110
19 Apr 2012Conditional
Extension to existing gilt house, dry sow house and 2nd stage weaner house at existing piggery
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4811
4 Apr 2012Incompleted application
Extension to existing gilt house, dry sow house and 2nd stage weaner house at piggery
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4653
21 Dec 2007Refused
Renovations and one and half storey extension to dwelling and installation of 2 no. solar panels
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13390
8 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of 2 no. pig fattening houses, an extension to 2nd stage weaner house, a store, a weighbridge, a wheel wash and to modify front entrance as previously granted under planning reg no.s 98/3183 and 97/4630 and an extension to staff house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5822
11 Mar 2004Conditional
Cattle underpass
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1617
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballindangan Marsh 000899
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.
- 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
- 105,129 m² (10.51 ha, 25.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballydeloughy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Derryvillane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 528 people lived in 189 households in the Derryvillane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindangan, Ballydeloughy
- 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.