Commons

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 275 m² to 139,917 m² (13.99 ha, 34.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for a two storey house, waste water treatment system/percolation area, vehicular access from the public road along with ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2684

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Construction of a new detached, single storey dwelling 2. Construction of a new garage 3. New vehicular entrance to site 4. New proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area 5. All associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560463

• 3 Jul 2025N/a

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Construction of a new detached, single storey dwelling 2. Construction of a new garage 3. New vehicular entrance to site 4. New proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area 5. All associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560427

• 16 Jul 2021Refused

  Permission sought for a detached bungalow using existing vehicular entrance off public road, decommissioning of existing septic tank on site, onsite waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21891

• 4 May 2021N/a

  Permission for development that will consist of a detached bungalow using existing vehicular entrance off public road, connection into existing septic tank on site 7 all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 21515

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 Commons.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons.

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

About 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3112 (ZIP).

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 Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Commons · An Coimín

Area

799,131 m² (79.91 ha, 197.47 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peter'S, and its townlands

Barony

Drogheda

Electoral division

St. Peter'S, the unit of the census

Census 2022

St. Peter'S electoral division: 10,951 people in 3,492 households; 71% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greenbatter, Listoke, Newtownstalaban, Townrath, Twenties, Yellowbatter

Placenames

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.