Commons West
Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Coimín Thiar
- Area
- 24.9 ha
- 61 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 2,441 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- R4
- Strategic Residential Reserve
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons West, from 103 m² to 9,213 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 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
24 Jul 2025Conditional
Full planning permission to construct a detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560639
3 Oct 2024Conditional
Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with a connection to a septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460754
13 May 2024Conditional
planning Permission to a) Construct a new dwelling and detached garage b) install a new septic tank and percolation area, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works at Commons West, Ardfert, Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460293
19 Dec 2023Conditional
to alter and extend her dwelling house with associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360426
17 Nov 2023Conditional
Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with a connection to a septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works at Commons West, Ardfert, Co. Kerry for Liam O Halloran. Height 6.272m
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360337
3 Apr 2023Conditional
DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSION SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING, GARAGE/STORE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23361
26 Aug 2022Refused
DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DWELLING, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING GARAGE/STORE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22897
11 Feb 2022Conditional
CHANGE THE DESIGN OF THE STOREY-AND-A-HALF HOUSE WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 20/343 ON 09/11/20 TO A DORMER HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22138
20 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE COMPLETE WITH NEW ENTRANCE ROAD, ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, PARKING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211197
20 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, COMPLETE WITH NEW ENTRANCE ROAD, ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, PARKING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211198
2 Jul 2021Conditional
TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND GRAVITY POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21743
23 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOUBLE GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21173
21 Dec 2020Conditional
TO (A) RETAIN DWELLING AND MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (B) RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE WITH MODIFIED CONDITION NO. 2 OF PLANNING REG. NO. 14/272 AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201248
28 Oct 2020Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING ON SITE DWELLING (B) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER (D) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201029
14 Jun 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOICATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20343
8 Apr 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOICATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING AND TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM ON SITE AND TO INSTALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20328
23 Jan 2020Conditional
ERECT A NEW BUNGALOW COMPLETE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT COMPLETE WITH NEW ENTRANCE ON TO EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2044
8 Oct 2019Refused
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING ON SITE DWELLING (B) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (C)CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER (D) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191038
21 Aug 2019Conditional
RETAIN OUR DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ATTACHED BEDSITTER ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19884
27 Jun 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDRIES AND PERMISSION TO RELOCATE AND REPLACE HIS SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION WITH A MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER COMPLETE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19673
27 Jun 2019Conditional
A DWELLING HOUSE, A MECHANICAL WASTERWATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19675
8 Aug 2018Refused
(A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING ON SITE DWELLING (B) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING (D) CONSTRUCT A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER (E) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18778
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 West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons West.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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_71 (ZIP).
- 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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Commons West · An Coimín Thiar
- Area
- 248,665 m² (24.87 ha, 61.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Clogherbrien, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clogherbrien electoral division: 1,535 people in 561 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardfert Oughter, Brandonwell, Cloon Glebe, Graigue Glebe, Knockavurra Glebe
- Placenames
- Commons West 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.