Commons North

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons North, from 186 m² to 176,955 m² (17.7 ha, 43.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 North 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.

• 9 Jun 2011Conditional

  The development will consist of amendments to the permitted Knockacummer Windfarm (PL.Reg. Reg. 04/8354; Pl.04.210685 and Pl.Reg.10/5211) to comprise of modifications to the permitted internal access road network including a)omission of sections of previously permitted internal road, b) upgrade and change of use of existing forestry roads and c) construction of new sections of road; modifications to underground internal cable route; extension of and modifications to permitted on-site substation compound (to consist of 2 no. separate control buildings for ESB and BGE and electrical equipment etc.) and provision of on-site water and wastewater storage tanks and associated infrastructure.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5246

• 18 May 2010Unconditional

  Completion of construction of 29 no. wind turbines, 2 no. meteorological masts, electrical substation, construction and upgrading of internal site tracks and associated works granted under pl.reg.no. 04/8354 (New permission to expire on 22/12/2014)

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/5211

• 11 May 2006Conditional

  Erection of 7.4kms of 38kV overhead network

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7096

• 22 Jun 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4368

• 11 Nov 2004Conditional

  29 no. wind turbines (hub height 80 m, blade diameter 90 m), electrical sub station with control building, 2 no. 80 m high meteorological masts, construction and extension of internal site tracks and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8354

• 30 Jun 2003Conditional

  Windfarm including 29 no. wind turbines (80m high),electrical substation with control building, 2 no. 60m meteorlog- ical masts & assoc works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3220

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons North.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons North.

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 North, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 North.

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 North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Commons North · An Coimín Thuaidh

Area

1,043,859 m² (104.39 ha, 257.94 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Glenlara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 147 households in the Glenlara electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cummerduff, Knockacummer, Meenkearagh, Meentinny East, Meentinny West, Tooreen Donnell, Tooreennaguppoge

Placenames

Commons North 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.