Commons West
Townland in the civil parish of Cloyne, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish An Coimín Thiar
- Area
- 12.3 ha
- 30 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 19,301 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons West, from 4,198 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) to 76,677 m² (7.67 ha, 18.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for extension to dwelling house and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0499
12 Jan 2026Invalid - case closed
Planning permission for extension to dwelling house and associated works at Commons East, Cloyne, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0033
21 Dec 2022Conditional
The construction of 96 no. dwelling houses, creche, local pumping station, new entrance from Church Street and all associated site development works. The proposed development consists of the construction of 7 no. 4-bed (8 person) detached houses, 14 no. 4-bed (7 person) semi-detached houses, 16 no. 3-bed (6 person) semi-detached houses, 8 no. 3-bed (5 person) semi-detached houses, 22 no. 3-bed (6 person) end of terrace houses, 12 no. 3-bed (5 person) end of terrace houses, 17 no. 2 bed mid terrace houses, creche for 52 children and 9 staff.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6844
23 Nov 2022Incompleted application
The construction of 96 no. dwelling houses, creche, local pumping station, new entrance from church street and all associated site development works. The proposed development consists of the construction of 7 no. 4-bed (8 person) detached houses, 14 no. 4-bed (7 person) semi-detached houses, 16 no. 3-bed (6 person) semi-detached houses, 8 no. 3-bed (5 person) semi-detached houses, 22 no. 3-bed (6 person) end of terrace houses, 12 no. 3-bed (5 person) end of terrace houses, 17 no. 2 bed mid terrace houses, creche for 52 children and 9 staff.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6615
28 Aug 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/10577
30 Mar 2007Conditional
Construct residential development consisting of 16 no. detached houses, 12 no. semi detached houses and 23 no. serviced sites for dwellinghouses, new site entrance and all associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6738
30 Mar 2007Conditional
Demolish existing light industrial workshop/shed and cottage dwellings (in ruins): Construct residential development 32 no. residential units consisiting of 8 no. maisonettes and 24 no. townhouses, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6737
11 Aug 2006Refused
Construction of 24 no. residential units comprising of 6 no. one and three quarter storey dwellings, 4 no. two and half storey terraced dwellings, 7 no. ground floor apartments with 7 no. duplex apartments over, site entrance, car parking, bin stores, access roads and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9706
22 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Construction of 24 no. residential units incorporating 6 no. one and half storey dwellings, 2 no. two and half storey dwellings, 7 no. ground floor apartment6s with 7 no. duplex apartments above, site entrance, car parking, bin stores, access roadwy and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8307
12 Apr 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6328
18 Nov 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse with domestic garage and store
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5717
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 West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons West.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Commons West.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Commons West · An Coimín Thiar
- Area
- 122,911 m² (12.29 ha, 30.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Cloyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloyne electoral division: 4,730 people in 1,639 households; 72% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons East, Kilboy, Spital, Town Parks
- Placenames
- Commons West 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.