Commons

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 16 m² to 130,775 m² (13.08 ha, 32.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a one-and-a-half-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, connected by a single-storey link. The works will also include the demolition of the existing garage and outbuildings, the installation of a new Sepcon BAF PE6 Sewage treatment system and Soil polishing filter, and all associated site works and landscaping. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561350

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  Single-storey extension to rear, projecting to the side. New rooflights to front and rear of existing roof, new window openings in gable walls, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360483

• 2 Oct 2020Conditional

  the development will consist of 1. New dwelling and detached garage, 2. New domestic entrance, 3. Oakstown wastewater treatment system with percolation area, 4. Landscaping & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201407

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  the development consists of the construction of a new 233.7sq.m. two storey dwelling, the construction of new entrance gates and piers, the installation of new waste water treatment plant, along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170438

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Commons.

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. Meath.

Name

Commons

Area

505,079 m² (50.51 ha, 124.81 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Skreen

Electoral division

Skreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skreen electoral division: 1,673 people in 561 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Branstown, Clowanstown, Collierstown, Colvinstown, Ross

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.