Commons Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Garristown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish An Coimín Uachtarach
- Area
- 102 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 11,239 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons Upper, from 95 m² to 63,986 m² (6.4 ha, 15.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 75 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 13 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
16 Aug 2025Conditional
a part single storey, part two storey dwelling with flat roof link, waste water treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560866
4 Dec 2023Grant permission for retention
The development will consist of retention for changes to planning F14B
Retention · Fingal County Council, F23A/0744
17 Apr 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of single storey detatched dwelling, dome
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0454
2 Sept 2022Grant permission
New single storey storage unit to allow storage of classic/vintage veh
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22B/0106
16 Mar 2022Invalid application due to site notice
New single storey storage unit to allow storage of classic/vintage veh
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22B/0073
9 Jul 2019Withdraw application
To Rescind Condition No. 6 of previously granted planning
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19B/0177
9 May 2019Grant permission
Permission for new dormer style dwellinghouse, widening of existing en
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0572
30 Jul 2018App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months
Permission to carry out initial preparation of the ground for afforest
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0442
10 Jul 2018Grant permission for retention
The development consists of (A) A detached domestic store with over-ha
Retention · Fingal County Council, F18B/0189
27 Oct 2016Grant permission & grant retention
Retention Permission to regularise the following: Dormer window with t
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F16A/0276
3 Mar 2015Grant permission
A new storey and a half extension to the side of the existing dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14B/0301
7 Oct 2014Refuse permission
A new storey and a half extension to the side of the existing dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14B/0035
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
- DU003-001 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Located in rough pasture. The site comprises a circular area (int. diam.31m) which is defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 0.5m) and external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2m). The site has been bisected by a field boundary oriented NNE-SSW. No evidence for an entrance or internal features. On 2005 aerials field to west has been ploughed. From 2009 aerials show visible trace. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 27 October 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons Upper.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Upper.
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Commons Upper · An Coimín Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,020,027 m² (102 ha, 252.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Garristown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Garristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garristown electoral division: 1,801 people in 529 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bartramstown (Co. Meath), Bunnianstown (Co. Meath), Commons Lower, Garristown, Moorepark (Co. Meath), Pluckhimin, Pluckhimin or Ballymuck (Co. Meath), Rath (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Commons Upper 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.