Ballycommon

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycommon, from 4,817 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres) to 131,565 m² (13.16 ha, 32.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycommon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycommon in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycommon.

Recorded monuments

• KD015-016 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other associated features that could indicate a possible field system (SMR file; pers. comm. D. Lucey). The townland boundaries respect the enclosure outline to the east and west. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 11 September 2015

• KD015-027 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage field. Cropmark of ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) transected at N by cropmark of field ditch running E-W visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 12/07/2013. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Seán Sourke Date of upload: 23 April 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycommon.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2869 (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.

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

Name

Ballycommon

Area

138,202 m² (13.82 ha, 34.15 acres)

Civil parish

Clonaghlis, and its townlands

Barony

Salt South

Electoral division

Donaghcumper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghcumper electoral division: 6,652 people in 2,218 households; 76% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Reeves, Wheatfield Lower, Wheatfield Upper

Placenames

Ballycommon 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.