Commonstown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commonstown, from 629 m² to 431,193 m² (43.12 ha, 106.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Commonstown 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.

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 14/530 - single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, well, recessed entrance and effluent treatment system with percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 191358

• 25 Mar 2019Conditional

  A bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19308

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  a bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18760

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 Commonstown.

Recorded monuments

• KD038-007 Moated site
  Description

  Rectangular enclosure marked on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (dims. c. 35m x 35m). No visible surface trace of monument. Possibly a moated site. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Commonstown.

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 Commonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Commonstown

Area

2,374,941 m² (237.49 ha, 586.86 acres)

Civil parish

Killelan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Carrigeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigeen electoral division: 644 people in 235 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Collin, Coolrake, Glebe, Killelan, Lackareagh (Co. Wicklow), Moone, Rathtoole (Co. Wicklow), Simonstown East, Simonstown West

Placenames

Commonstown 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.