# Commonstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killelan, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,374,941 m² (237.49 ha, 586.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,084 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killelan, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/killelan.md - Barony: Kilkea and Moone - Electoral division: Carrigeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 644 people lived in 235 households in the Carrigeen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24985 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80371 - Centre: latitude 52.971629, longitude -6.78715 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commonstown, from 629 m² to 431,193 m² (43.12 ha, 106.55 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1080886: 431,193 m² (43.12 ha, 106.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080886.md - Parcel 1032528: 342,044 m² (34.2 ha, 84.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032528.md - Parcel 1029518: 160,434 m² (16.04 ha, 39.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029518.md - Parcel 1071073: 158,228 m² (15.82 ha, 39.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1071073.md - Parcel 1030826: 140,950 m² (14.09 ha, 34.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030826.md - Parcel 1030532: 122,343 m² (12.23 ha, 30.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030532.md - Parcel 3443483: 114,608 m² (11.46 ha, 28.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3443483.md - Parcel 5420764: 107,192 m² (10.72 ha, 26.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5420764.md - Parcel 1089439: 97,054 m² (9.71 ha, 23.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089439.md - Parcel 1084562: 81,517 m² (8.15 ha, 20.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084562.md - Parcel 1033730: 77,112 m² (7.71 ha, 19.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1033730.md - Parcel 5420661: 70,637 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5420661.md - Parcel 4867716: 70,510 m² (7.05 ha, 17.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4867716.md - Parcel 1077946: 64,959 m² (6.5 ha, 16.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077946.md - Parcel 5420944: 64,532 m² (6.45 ha, 15.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5420944.md - Parcel 1030234: 57,631 m² (5.76 ha, 14.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1030234.md - Parcel 3443383: 52,548 m² (5.25 ha, 12.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3443383.md - Parcel 1078838: 37,526 m² (3.75 ha, 9.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078838.md - Parcel 1079522: 36,084 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079522.md - Parcel 1034122: 13,806 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034122.md - Parcel 5487212: 8,175 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5487212.md - Parcel 1068686: 7,893 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1068686.md - Parcel 1079793: 6,925 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079793.md - Parcel 1018510: 6,734 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018510.md - Parcel 1078347: 5,815 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078347.md - Parcel 5650064: 4,881 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650064.md - Parcel 1077384: 4,420 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077384.md - Parcel 1076877: 4,215 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1076877.md - Parcel 5542287: 3,850 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542287.md - Parcel 1073475: 3,750 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1073475.md - Parcel 1080386: 3,608 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080386.md - Parcel 1070839: 3,005 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1070839.md - Parcel 1034333: 2,800 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034333.md - Parcel 1077865: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077865.md - Parcel 5542267: 1,621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542267.md - Parcel 1069381: 1,492 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1069381.md - Parcel 1077020: 629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1077020.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 6 Dec 2019, Kildare County Council 191358: Conditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191358/0 - 25 Mar 2019, Kildare County Council 19308: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19308/0 - 25 Jun 2018, Kildare County Council 18760: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a bungalow, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18760/0 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 Commonstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD038-007: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD038-007----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commonstown. ## 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 Commonstown, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/commonstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commonstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/commonstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Commonstown 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) - Collin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/collin.md - Coolrake: https://everytownland.com/kildare/coolrake.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kildare/glebe-80569.md - Killelan: https://everytownland.com/kildare/killelan.md - Lackareagh (Co. Wicklow): https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lackareagh.md - Moone: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moone.md - Rathtoole (Co. Wicklow): https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rathtoole.md - Simonstown East: https://everytownland.com/kildare/simonstown-east.md - Simonstown West: https://everytownland.com/kildare/simonstown-west.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/commonstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/commonstown