Commons
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoremoy, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Coimín
- Area
- 31.3 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 23,666 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 91 m² to 46,538 m² (4.65 ha, 11.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N6Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Nov 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the retention of alterations to elevations of existing dwelling house.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560862
30 May 2024Conditional
retain extension to dwelling house, construct pitched roof over extension and carry out alterations to dwelling house including all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24203
29 May 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the change of use of first floor warehouse storage / office space to GYM to include all associated internal works. Attached to the previously granted planning permission P14/297.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460333
22 Jul 2022Conditional
Change of house type which was previously granted permission under P16/587 and subsequently extended under P16/5870, together with all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22602
23 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOCK LEVELLER AND ASSOCIATED CIVIL WORKS TO THE REAR OF UNIT 8E ATTACHED TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION P14/297
Permission · Mayo County Council, 201058
17 Jun 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19467
9 Mar 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND BOILER HOUSE, PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, RAISING THE ROOF OF THE EXISTING DWELLING TO ACCOMMODATE A FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND CHANGES TO ALL ELEVATIONS AND FENESTRATION
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18151
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 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_374 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Commons · An Coimín
- Area
- 312,791 m² (31.28 ha, 77.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoremoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Ballina Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballina Urban electoral division: 4,246 people in 1,815 households; 55% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- 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.