Tirmoghan Common
Townland in the civil parish of Cloncurry, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare; in Irish Tír Mocháin
- Area
- 19.4 ha
- 48 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 1,789 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirmoghan Common, from 95 m² to 52,412 m² (5.24 ha, 12.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tirmoghan Common 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 May 2025Refused
for the material change of use of the existing one and a half storey ancillary building (previous Plan Ref;. 16/507), to a single residential unit
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2589
7 Jun 2024Conditional
for A) Demolition of existing single storey garage and single storey agricultural shed, B) Alterations to existing dwelling consisting of i) removal of existing roof and rear extension, ii) raising of existing external walls and provision of new roof over the existing dwelling, iii) Alterations to all existing elevations, iv) construction of new single storey extensions to the side/rear of the existing dwelling, C) The construction of a new mono-pitched covered link structure between the new extensions and existing barn, D) The construction of a new single storey and a half garage and home office out building with storage space at first floor E) The decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and the provision of a new waste water treatment plant and percolation area, E) Alteration to existing site entrance and driveways, together with all associated site development and landscaping works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 24182
23 Aug 2021Conditional
for existing approved single storey extension to the rear of existing bungalow to be used as a playschool and 8 car parking spaces to the front and side
Retention · Kildare County Council, 211211
20 Jan 2021Refused
construction of a rural housing cluster consisting of 4 No. detached bungalows for rural local need persons only in accordance with the Rural Housing Policy of the Kildare County Development Plan 2017-2023, each with individual secondary effluent treatment systems, recessed entrance, access road to serve the proposed development and all associated site works
Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 2154
23 Dec 2020N/a
construction of a rural housing cluster consisting of 4 No. serviced sites with suggested bungalow house types, for rural local need persons only in accordance with the Rural Housing Policy of the Kildare County Development Plan 2017-2023, each with individual secondary effluent treatment systems, recessed entrance, access road to serve the proposed development and all associated site works
Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 201610
25 Oct 2019Conditional
the demolition of existing standalone shelter/water tower structure and prefabricated structure (floor area of structures to be demolished = 130sqm), and the erection of a two storey extension incorporating 2no. classrooms at ground floor level and 1no. classroom over at first floor level (total floor area of proposed extension = 312sqm) to the side/rear of existing single storey School Building (floor area of existing single storey School Building = 368sqm), minor internal alterations, and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191187
16 Sept 2019Refused
construction of a rural housing cluster consisting of 5 no detached single storey bungalows with individual secondary effluent treatment systems, recessed entrance, access road to serve the proposed development and all associated site works,
Permission, 5 homes · Kildare County Council, 191032
1 Jul 2019Conditional
Single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing house to include extended kitchen/dining/living area, new utility room and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19747
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tirmoghan Common.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirmoghan Common.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirmoghan Common.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tirmoghan Common.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tirmoghan Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Tirmoghan Common · Tír Mocháin
- Area
- 193,633 m² (19.36 ha, 47.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncurry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Cloncurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloncurry electoral division: 1,648 people in 512 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooltrim North, Fanaghs, Kilmagorroge
- Placenames
- Tirmoghan Common 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.