# Commons (2nd Division), Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish An Coimín (an Dara Roinn). - Area (Tailte Éireann): 57,346 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 987 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 RV - Rural Village, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Balscaddan, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/balscaddan.md - Barony: Balrothery East - Electoral division: Balscadden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16757 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260262 - Centre: latitude 53.618518, longitude -6.23272 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons (2nd Division), from 212 m² to 3,447 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1784792: 3,447 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1784792.md - Parcel 2520519: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2520519.md - Parcel 1817541: 1,841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1817541.md - Parcel 1817537: 1,763 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1817537.md - Parcel 1817539: 1,495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1817539.md - Parcel 1817540: 1,263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1817540.md - Parcel 1784790: 1,228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1784790.md - Parcel 6018332: 1,227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6018332.md - Parcel 4714601: 987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4714601.md - Parcel 5205312: 834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5205312.md - Parcel 1817538: 809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1817538.md - Parcel 5205310: 571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5205310.md - Parcel 1817536: 452 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1817536.md - Parcel 1784791: 302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1784791.md - Parcel 6018341: 290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6018341.md - Parcel 1784793: 221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1784793.md - Parcel 3959054: 212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3959054.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M2 RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 21 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G3 GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 15 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G4 OS - Open Space (Active open space): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Feb 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/0093: Grant permission. Permission. The development will consist of. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 5 Dec 2017, Fingal County Council F17A/0536: Grant permission. Permission. Permission to demolish an existing single storey extension (rear),. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 27 Sept 2017, Fingal County Council F17A/0587: Grant permission. Permission. Erect a single one and a half dwelling house with garage and ancillary. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli 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 Commons (2nd Division). ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons (2nd Division). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1815–1825, Regional interest, registry number 11304008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11304008. Detached gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1819, with three bays to side elevations. Single-bay sacristy with bellcote over gable to east. ROOF: Double pitched slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rain water goods, stone cross to front gable, nap rendered chimney stack to rear gable with bellcote above. WALLS: Nap rendered, lined and ruled with nap rendered plinth course. OPENINGS: Gothic arched window and door openings, rendered reveals, limestone cills, original Gothic arched timber sash windows, later stained glass windows, square headed door opening with limestone hood moulding, limestone door surround, tongue and groove timber door. INTERIOR:Timber gallery. - House, 1750–1850, Regional interest, registry number 11304009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11304009. Detached three-bay single-storey formerly thatched house, c.1800, now with corrugated-iron roof. Outbuilding attached to west. ROOF: Hipped corrugated-iron with curved swept hip ends, originally thatched, with a nap rendered chimney stack. WALLS: Nap rendered. OPENINGS: Square headed with nap rendered reveals, stone cills, timber casments and timber panelled door, c.1980. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Commons (2nd Division), 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 (2nd Division). - 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/dublin/commons-2nd-division.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/commons-2nd-division.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/commons-2nd-division.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Commons (2nd Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balscaddan: https://everytownland.com/dublin/balscaddan.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/dublin/grange-260441.md - Tobertown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/tobertown.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/dublin/commons-2nd-division - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/commons-2nd-division