# Commons Lower, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lyons, barony of Salt South, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 378,926 m² (37.89 ha, 93.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,794 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lyons, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/lyons.md - Barony: Salt South - Electoral division: Donaghcumper, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,652 people lived in 2,218 households in the Donaghcumper electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25368 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80365 - Centre: latitude 53.322824, longitude -6.532305 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons Lower, from 12 m² to 146,518 m² (14.65 ha, 36.21 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5363984: 146,518 m² (14.65 ha, 36.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5363984.md - Parcel 1081002: 65,440 m² (6.54 ha, 16.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1081002.md - Parcel 1038719: 56,802 m² (5.68 ha, 14.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038719.md - Parcel 1053564: 55,497 m² (5.55 ha, 13.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053564.md - Parcel 1027073: 21,514 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1027073.md - Parcel 1058686: 8,757 m² (0.88 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058686.md - Parcel 1054061: 2,577 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054061.md - Parcel 1017144: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1017144.md - Parcel 1013748: 1,956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1013748.md - Parcel 4827984: 1,794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4827984.md - Parcel 1084954: 1,629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084954.md - Parcel 1072476: 1,514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072476.md - Parcel 4859987: 1,475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859987.md - Parcel 5289973: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5289973.md - Parcel 6206625: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6206625.md - Parcel 2658127: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2658127.md - Parcel 5289990: 76 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5289990.md - Parcel 3967940: 74 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3967940.md - Parcel 4804067: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4804067.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Commons Lower 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 10 Feb 2025, Kildare County Council 2560108: Conditional. Permission. for the single storey side extension, internal alteration, rear roof dormer window to existing roof and associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of replacing the existing septic tank with a new treatment system & a new percolation area. Revised by Significant further information which consists of: Replacing the existing septic tank with a new treatment system & a new percolation area. The treatment and tertiary systems are to be relocated. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560108/0 - 31 Jan 2025, Kildare County Council 2560080: N/a. Permission. for the single storey side extension, internal alteration, rear roof dormer window to existing roof and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560080/0 - 27 Jan 2025, Kildare County Council 2511: N/a. Permission. for the single storey side extension, internal alterations, rear roof dormer window to existing roof and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2511/0 - 27 Nov 2020, Kildare County Council 201434: Refused. Permission, 1 home. a detached, two storey, 4 bed dwelling with on-site wastewater treatment system, detached garage, new vehicular entrance, boundary treatment, landscaping and all associated site works,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201434/0 - 20 Nov 2020, Kildare County Council 201399: N/a. Permission, 1 home. a detached, two story, 4 bed dwelling with on-site wastewater treatment system, detached garage, new vehicular entrance, boundary treatment, landscaping and all associated site works,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201399/0 - 9 Nov 2020, Kildare County Council 201336: N/a. Permission, 1 home. a detached, two storey, 4 bed dwelling with on-site wastewater treatment system, detached garage, new vehicular entrance, boundary treatment, landscaping and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/201336/0 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 Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons Lower. ## 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 Commons Lower, 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2901, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2901.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/kildare/commons-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commons-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commons-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Commons Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Commons: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commons-80370.md - Commons Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commons-upper.md - Coolfitch: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolfitch.md - Dangan: https://everytownland.com/kildare/dangan.md - Loughlinstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/loughlinstown.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/kildare/commons-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/commons-lower