Croagh Commons
Croagh Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Coimín Chróich.
- Area
- 25.6 ha
- 63 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,623 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croagh Commons, from 551 m² to 46,572 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Croagh Commons 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
31 Mar 2026Conditional
a change of use for part of the existing retail facility to an Off-Licence and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2684
2 Jun 2023Conditional
(ref. no. of outline permission 21/717) a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. Planning permission is also sought for a detached domestic garage
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23289
4 Jun 2021Conditional
a commercial garage and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21789
26 May 2021Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21718
26 May 2021Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21717
25 May 2018Refused
the construction of a dwelling, site entrance, effluent treatment system, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18518
1 Nov 2017Conditional
1. the construction of two storey dwelling house, 2. the construction of a domestic garage, 3. the installation of a wastewater treatment and disposal system, 4. entrance, driveway and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171009
7 Mar 2017Refused
the construction of dwelling, entrance, install effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17206
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 Croagh Commons.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croagh Commons.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croagh Commons.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Croagh Commons, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croagh Commons.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Croagh Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Croagh Commons · Coimín Chróich
- Area
- 255,708 m² (25.57 ha, 63.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Dromard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 916 people lived in 300 households in the Dromard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Amogan Beg, Ballymacave, Beechmount Demesne, Blossomhill, Clogh West, Parklewis, Rathkeale Commons
- Placenames
- Croagh Commons 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.