# Common, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 631,680 m² (63.17 ha, 156.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,876 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inishkeel, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inishkeel.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Glengesh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14667 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50679 - Centre: latitude 54.743205, longitude -8.428465 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common, from 19 m² to 104,993 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1357854: 104,993 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357854.md - Parcel 1309694: 71,940 m² (7.19 ha, 17.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309694.md - Parcel 1340098: 66,790 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340098.md - Parcel 1383554: 36,935 m² (3.69 ha, 9.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383554.md - Parcel 1383663: 30,488 m² (3.05 ha, 7.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383663.md - Parcel 1383553: 25,881 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383553.md - Parcel 1383664: 23,074 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383664.md - Parcel 1428595: 21,624 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428595.md - Parcel 1418340: 19,824 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418340.md - Parcel 1362693: 19,485 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362693.md - Parcel 1418341: 18,469 m² (1.85 ha, 4.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418341.md - Parcel 1327886: 16,776 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327886.md - Parcel 1412057: 16,458 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412057.md - Parcel 1410626: 16,402 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410626.md - Parcel 1412056: 16,094 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412056.md - Parcel 4744822: 14,947 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4744822.md - Parcel 5114145: 14,763 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5114145.md - Parcel 1315027: 13,130 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315027.md - Parcel 1377919: 12,734 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377919.md - Parcel 1324023: 11,111 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324023.md - Parcel 4859207: 6,512 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859207.md - Parcel 4859191: 5,395 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859191.md - Parcel 4726949: 4,837 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4726949.md - Parcel 5267964: 4,268 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5267964.md - Parcel 4744824: 3,484 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4744824.md - Parcel 1412708: 3,330 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412708.md - Parcel 5268765: 3,190 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5268765.md - Parcel 4620643: 2,985 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4620643.md - Parcel 1336448: 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336448.md - Parcel 3662334: 2,457 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662334.md - Parcel 1393067: 2,364 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393067.md - Parcel 1369175: 2,068 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369175.md - Parcel 1371912: 1,941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371912.md - Parcel 1406650: 1,927 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406650.md - Parcel 1388806: 1,823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388806.md - Parcel 1407669: 1,663 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407669.md - Parcel 4817869: 1,560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817869.md - Parcel 1333770: 1,360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333770.md - Parcel 5828681: 1,293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828681.md - Parcel 1397335: 1,287 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397335.md - Parcel 1427931: 781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427931.md - Parcel 4795590: 732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795590.md - Parcel 4744807: 719 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4744807.md - Parcel 4817922: 394 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817922.md - Parcel 4795582: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795582.md - Parcel 1328752: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328752.md - Parcel 4817857: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817857.md - Parcel 4817876: 19 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817876.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Common in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 14 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2661299: N/a. Permission. (1) RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661299/0 - 5 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2661240: N/a. Permission. (1) RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661240/0 - 29 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351828: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351828/0 - 22 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350714: Conditional. Retention. USE OF DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 18/51177 AS A FUNERAL HOME INCORPORATING CHAPEL OF REST INCLUDING INFORMATION SIGNAGE AND PERMISSION FOR AMENDMENT OF CONDITION NO.4 OF PLANNING REF: 18/51177 FROM A STONE-FACED BOUNDARY WALL TO A PLASTER FINISHED BOUNDARY WALL AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350714/0 - 21 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851777: Conditional. Retention. (1) RETENTION OF A STONED AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STAFF PARKING, ANCILLARY TO EXISTING BAKERY FACILITY INCLUDING CAR PARK LIGHTING AND (2) COMPLETION OF THE PARKING AREA CONSISTING: HARD SURFACING TO CAR PARK INCLUDING MARKINGS INDICATING PARKING SPACES AND PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS AND INSTALLATION OF AN APPROVED OIL INTERCEPTOR. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851777/0 - 21 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851328: N/a. Retention. A STONED AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STAFF PARKING, ANCILLARY TO EXISTING BAKERY FACILITY INCLUDING CAR PARK LIGHTING AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE PARKING AREA WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING (1) HARD SURFACING TO CAR PARK INCLUDING MARKINGS INDICATING PARKING SPACES AND PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS AND (2) INSTALLATION OF AN APPROVED OIL INTERCEPTOR. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851328/0 - 20 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850233: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850233/0 - 9 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850180: N/a. Retention. DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A STONED AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STAFF PARKING, ANCILLARY TO EXISTING BAKERY FACILITY INCLUDING CAR PARK LIGHTING AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE PARKING AREA CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: RELOCATION OF THE CAR PARK ENTRANCE, HARD SURFACING TO CAR PARK INCLUDING MARKINGS INDICATING PARKING SPACES AND PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS. INSTALLATION OF AN APPROVED OIL INTERCEPTOR. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850180/0 - 23 Oct 2017, Donegal County Council 1751596: N/a. Retention. DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A STONED AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STAFF PARKING ANCILLARY TO EXISTING BAKERY FACILITY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751596/0 - 27 Sept 2017, Donegal County Council 1751478: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751478/0 - 10 Feb 2017, Donegal County Council 1750181: Refused. Permission. (1) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO USE AS A FUNERAL HOME. (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FUEL SHED. (3) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE COFFIN DISPLAY AREA AND FUNERAL OFFICE, WORKS INCLUDE PROVISION OF A NEW ROOF STRUCTURE OVER THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. (4) SETBACK EXISTING FRONT BOUNDARY FENCELINE ALONG THE FRONTAGE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750181/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Common. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG082-004: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG082-004----. Internal Diam 15.3m. A subcircular area enclosed for the most part by a collapsed stone wall except on the NE where a curving field boundary wall probably reflects the original limits of the enclosure. On the NW side traces of facing stones suggest a wall width of 1.5m. The wall collapse is evident only as a grassed-over rise .2m in height. The site is located in fair pasture but the interior has been planted with conifers. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 - DG082-005: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG082-005----. Internal diam. 24.4m. A subcircular area enclosed by a grassed-over, collapsed stone wall except for the N to E quadrant where it makes use of a cliff edge of the knoll on which it stands. The remains suggest a wall width of 1.6m. Just W of S a tangential wall base extends out from the enclosing wall in an E direction for 15.2m. It is situated on a knoll, with a steep E side, in an area of poor pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40908206, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40908206. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with single-storey extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with mesh over, thatch tied to stone pegs built into walls, and having two rendered chimneystacks; flat felt roof to extension. Limewashed rendered walls with square-headed openings, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, painted stone sills and replacement timber door. Single-storey outbuilding to northwest with pitched corrugated-iron roof having render copings, and rendered walls. Square-plan rendered piers to entrance with metal gate, associated cattle grid and timber pedestrian gate. Rubble stone garden wall to front of house. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1156, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1156.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/common-50679.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/common-50679.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/common-50679.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Common, Ardara: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/common-ardara.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aighe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aighe.md - Bracky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bracky.md - Cashel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashel-50547.md - Glengesh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glengesh.md - Scaddaman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/scaddaman.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/common-50679 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/common-50679