# Commons, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbonane, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 41,889 m² (4.19 ha, 10.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbonane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilbonane.md - Barony: Magunihy - Electoral division: Kilbonane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kilbonane electoral division: 632 people in 230 households; 83% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23416 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70766 - Centre: latitude 52.123868, longitude -9.67124 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 241 m² to 12,297 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1234970: 12,297 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1234970.md - Parcel 1212874: 7,482 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212874.md - Parcel 1208401: 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208401.md - Parcel 1210660: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210660.md - Parcel 1211380: 1,155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211380.md - Parcel 1207703: 668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1207703.md - Parcel 1212076: 241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212076.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Commons 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) 1 application, newest first. - 22 Sept 2025, Kerry County Council 2560856: Conditional. Permission. REDIII: A 10 year planning permission for a solar farm, 38kV substation and underground cabling grid connection, and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 57 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c.230,000 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 14 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The energy storage compound will consist of 36 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 9 no. transformers and 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 2 no. spare parts containers and 1. no. office unit. Planning permission is also sought for 1 no. 38kV substation and associated electrical compound, including single storey control building, line bay, transformer and accompanying apparatus, and associated grid connection between the proposed substation and Oughtragh 110kV substation comprising 38kV underground electricity cabling of c.3.87km in length to be provided in an excavated trench on private lands and the L11003, L8003 and L80030 public roads, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The project will also include 33kV underground interconnector electrical cabling within the development site and within the L11003 public road, temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, landscaping (including hedgerow removal and planting), drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 6 no. entrances from the L11003 and L80030, with 1 no. of these entrances used for the temporary construction phase only. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560856/0 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 Commons. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons. ## 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 low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_134, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_134.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/kerry/commons-70766.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-70766.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-70766.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Farranmanagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranmanagh.md - Knocknaman: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knocknaman.md - Lissavane East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lissavane-east.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/kerry/commons-70766 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/commons-70766