Common

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common, from 308 m² to 332,361 m² (33.24 ha, 82.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Refused

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, a new site entrance, treatment system and soil polishing filter, and all associated ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660709

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25378

• 4 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged waste-water unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561132

• 12 Jun 2025Refused

  the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25192

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  a front and side extension to an existing cottage and all associated site works. This is a Protected Structure

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22898

• 13 Jul 2022N/a

  a front and side extension to an existing cottage and all associated site works. The proposed development consists of work to a Protected Structure

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22774

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21998

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  silage pits and concrete service apron, associated tyre pit and hardstanding area as constructed, previously granted under planning application reference 12/31, along with cubicle shed as constructed, previously granted under planning application reference 17/1097

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21713

• 12 Feb 2021Conditional

  a milking parlour, farm office, dairy , plant room, storeroom, electrical room, partially roofed drafting yard and collecting yard, milk bulk tank, meal bin, water tank, soiled water tank, concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21150

• 3 Mar 2020Conditional

  a change of use from a domestic garage to a pre-school and increase number permitted under previous planning ref 16/779 from 11 up to 19 children until the end of 2022/2023 school year, replace window with a double door to front of pre-school, hardcore yard car park spaces and permission to upgrade waste water treatment and disposal treatment system and all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20186

• 17 Oct 2019Refused

  a change of use from a domestic garage to a pre-school and increase number permitted under previous planning ref. 16/779 from 11 up to 22 children, replace window with a double door to front of pre-school, hardcore yard car park spaces and Permission to upgrade waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 191029

• 24 Nov 2017Conditional

  an agricultural livestock unit, two underground slurry storage tanks, extension to milking parlour and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171097

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.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-069 Field boundary
  Description

  Field wall built around edge of quarry, now abandoned and densely overgrown with vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI030-189 Sweathouse
  Description

  Situated on W side of farmhouse, adjacent to haggard area. Present remains consist of the poorly preserved scrub-covered lower walls (max. H 1.5m) of a sweathouse with entrance visible. Site inaccessible at time of visit. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Micheál Mac Gearailt Date of upload: 11 December 2020

• LI038-005 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked oval enclosure (c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, slight scarp evident ESE->SSW may be remains of enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope of Knockfierna Hill. Circular area (29.1m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by inner earthen bank, outer earth-and-stone bank, and intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m). Inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 6.2m), best preserved WSW->NE, lowers at S. Outer bank (ext. H 2.4m), stone faced internally SSW->SW, becomes flat-topped and widens (Wth 2.4m) along N arc. Fosse (D 0.75m), littered with loose stone, becomes flat-bottomed at SW. Causeway entrance at ENE through inner (Wth 4.6m) and outer (Wth 7.4m) banks. Level interior under pasture. Remains of dry-stone field wall abuts outer bank at SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-167 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In rough upland area on the summit of a ridge, ringfort known locally as 'Lissnaderne' (LI038-022----) lies 270m to SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Surveyed in 1994 and described as a flat circular-shaped area (diam. 5m) defined by a U-shaped fosse (top Wth 2m; base Wth 0.8m; D 0.7m) and a low earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.4m; int. H 0.8m) with traces of a possible causewayed entrance (Wth 1.5m) at ESE (SMR File, Field Report P. Danaher 01/07/1994). Outline of monument visible as circular-shaped area of clear vegetation on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. Scrub-free area visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Monument placed on the Register of Historic Monuments in 1994 (Schedule Serial No. 14/94). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 17 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 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.

No address of the register names Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Common · An Coimín

Area

2,649,263 m² (264.93 ha, 654.65 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyelan, Ballygrennan, Ballynahaha, Ballyroe East, Ballyroe West, Ballyvologe, Caherhenesy, Gorteen, Killoughty, Kilmacow, Kilmihil

Placenames

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.