# Ring Commons, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Coimín na Roinne. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 705,125 m² (70.51 ha, 174.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,832 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 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/16770 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260776 - Centre: latitude 53.579834, longitude -6.224354 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ring Commons, from 681 m² to 44,705 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1889365: 44,705 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889365.md - Parcel 4759602: 32,231 m² (3.22 ha, 7.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759602.md - Parcel 1889377: 7,315 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889377.md - Parcel 1794699: 7,000 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794699.md - Parcel 5212106: 6,743 m² (0.67 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5212106.md - Parcel 1794700: 5,842 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794700.md - Parcel 1889366: 5,786 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889366.md - Parcel 1889371: 5,470 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889371.md - Parcel 1889372: 5,270 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889372.md - Parcel 1794696: 5,197 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794696.md - Parcel 1794695: 4,596 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794695.md - Parcel 1794704: 3,806 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794704.md - Parcel 1889375: 3,590 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889375.md - Parcel 1889368: 3,136 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889368.md - Parcel 1889376: 2,878 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889376.md - Parcel 1794701: 2,787 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794701.md - Parcel 4759606: 2,428 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759606.md - Parcel 4759598: 2,427 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759598.md - Parcel 1794702: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794702.md - Parcel 1889373: 1,917 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889373.md - Parcel 1889370: 1,749 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889370.md - Parcel 1889369: 1,677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889369.md - Parcel 1889374: 1,503 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889374.md - Parcel 1794697: 1,286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794697.md - Parcel 1889367: 1,158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889367.md - Parcel 1889378: 791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889378.md - Parcel 1794698: 780 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794698.md - Parcel 5344428: 756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5344428.md - Parcel 1788681: 705 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1788681.md - Parcel 5537368: 681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537368.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 41 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G3 HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 12 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; 1 parcel. 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; 0 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 1 Jul 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0572E: Refuse permission & refuse retention. Permission and retention. The development will consist of Retention of existing building which c. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 27 Mar 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0254E: Withdraw application. Permission. Planning Permission for the installation of 3 no. modular, portable Pa. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 18 May 2018, Fingal County Council F18A/0262: Refuse permission. Permission. Permission for the construction of new detached dormer style dwelling,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 16 Oct 2017, Fingal County Council F17A/0638: Grant permission. Permission. New dormer style dwelling house accessed via existing entrance, new wa. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 3 May 2017, Fingal County Council F16A/0259: Withdraw application. Permission. New dormer style dwelling house accessed via existing entrance, new wa. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 15 Sept 2015, Fingal County Council F15A/0431: Refuse permission for retention. Retention. Retention of use of lands for the purpose of accommodating and retaini. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bog Of The Ring, site code 001204 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ring Commons. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ring Commons. ## 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 Ring Commons, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ring Commons. - 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/ring-commons.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring-commons.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring-commons.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ring Commons 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) - Balrickard: https://everytownland.com/dublin/balrickard.md - Belgee: https://everytownland.com/dublin/belgee.md - Curragh East: https://everytownland.com/dublin/curragh-east.md - Dermotstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/dermotstown.md - Haystown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/haystown-260458.md - Knock: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knock.md - Ring: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring.md - Ring Commons (1st Division): https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring-commons-1st-division.md - Ring Commons (2nd Division): https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring-commons-2nd-division.md - Rowans Big: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rowans-big.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/ring-commons - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/ring-commons