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Greatcommon

Greatcommon is a townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is An Coimín Mór.

Area
79.4 ha
196 acres
Land parcels
147
registered freehold, median 908 m²
Zoning
P1
RU - Rural
Planning
82
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

GreatcommonCollinstownBallymaguireLuskKingstownRegeensHorestownCausestownRallekaystownTyrrelstown LittleRahenyRathmooneyBallaghstownTyrrelstown BigRegles
1,000 m
229 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

147 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greatcommon, from 9 m² to 44,072 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 82 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 82 applications.

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 Greatcommon.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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
At the centre of the townland of Greatcommon, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greatcommon.
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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

No address of the register names Greatcommon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name
Greatcommon · An Coimín Mór
Area
793,659 m² (79.37 ha, 196.12 acres)
Civil parish
Lusk, and its townlands
Barony
Balrothery East
Electoral division
Lusk, the unit of the census
Census 2022
10,774 people lived in 3,341 households in the Lusk electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballough, Causestown, Collinstown, Lusk, Raheny, Rallekaystown, Regles, Tyrrelstown Big, Tyrrelstown Little
Placenames
Greatcommon 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.