Common South

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common South, from 596 m² to 1,060 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 17 Jun 2026Refused

  Extension of Duration: 6no. dwelling houses as follows: 3no. 3 bedroom 2 storey terrace houses, Block A on sites 1-3 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey 3 bedroom terrace houses, Block B on sites 4-6 inclusive. Connection to mains sewer, access roads, car parking and all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 2675

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  for modifications and change of use of an existing building to the current use as a dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460118

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 Common South.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Common South.

Architectural heritage

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

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_2572 (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 Common South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Common South

Area

20,008 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyshannon, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilrush electoral division: 698 people in 228 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Newtown, Suncroft

Placenames

Common South 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.