Kilcommon
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cill Chomáin
- Area
- 46.6 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 6,804 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcommon, from 245 m² to 58,021 m² (5.8 ha, 14.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Kilcommon 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
12 May 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17363
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 Kilcommon.
Recorded monuments
- MA111-048001 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA111-048002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1819, on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with ridge tiles, paired central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Central door opening with fittings not visible. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings not visible. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates.
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, 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_425 (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 Kilcommon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcommon · Cill Chomáin
- Area
- 465,935 m² (46.59 ha, 115.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Kilcommon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcommon electoral division: 676 people in 257 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brittas, Clogher, Creggawatta, Lisnamoyle, Lissatava, Lugatallin, Pollnacartan
- Placenames
- Kilcommon 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.