Commons (1st Division)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons (1st Division), from 5 m² to 17,239 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 25 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for a Large-Scale Residential Development - Permission for a Large-Scale Residential Development (LRD) on this site of approximately 6.087 hectares (gross) at lands located in the townland of “Crowpark 1st Division,” Trim, Co. Meath. The main development site is bounded to the north by Kildalkey Road (L-4022), to the east by the Elder Grove residential estate, to the west by agricultural lands, and to the south by lands adjoining the River Boyne. To facilitate a foul sewer connection to the existing public network, the red line boundary extends south-east, passing beneath the River Boyne, and continuing underneath Trim Pitch and Putt Club lands, then south along Jonathan Swift Street, terminating directly adjacent the Office of Public Works offices on Jonathan Swift Street. The proposed development will consist of 183 no. residential units (16 no. 1-bed, 40 no. 2-bed and 127 no. 3- and 4-bed units) and a creche. The residential mix will comprise 127 no. houses (19 no. detached 4-bed houses, 9 no. semi-detached/end-terrace 4-bed houses, 4 no. detached 3-bed houses, 43 no. semi-detached/end-terrace 3-bed houses and 52 no. mid-terrace 3-bed houses) and 56 no. apartments (16 no. 1-bed and 40 no. 2-bed units). The development will include 2 no. apartment blocks of up to 4 storeys in height. Houses will range from 2 to 2½ storeys in height and will comprise a mix of detached, semi-detached, end-terrace and mid-terrace dwellings. The creche will be a two-storey stand-alone building (c. 394 sq.m), with associated open space, car parking and a dedicated set-down area. All residential units will be provided with private amenity space in the form of balconies or gardens. The development will also include public and communal open spaces. The proposed development will be served by a new single vehicular access road from Kildalkey Road as well as additional pedestrian access points. Provision has been made for potential future pedestrian and cyclist-only connections via the residential estate to the east. The development will include the provision of a pumped foul sewer connection to the existing foul sewer located on Jonathan Swift Street. The works will involve installation by Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) of a rising main beneath the River Boyne. The development will also include all associated site development works, including 348 no. car parking spaces and 147 no. cycle parking spaces; public, communal and private open spaces; landscaping, bounda

  Permission, 139 homes · Meath County Council, 2660788

• 22 Apr 2022N/a

  meath permission being sought for the Retention of all items that were granted as part of planning reference TA160837. These include 5No. Timber cladded steel containers as temporary facilities for use as storage, plant room, office/reception space, disabled accessible toilet and changing rooms alterations to existing entrance, a kayak wash down area, set down area, connections to public water main and public sewer and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Retention · Meath County Council, 22543

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  5 No. Timber Cladded steel containers as temporary facilities for use as storage, plant room, office/reception space, disabled accessible toilet and changing rooms. The development will also consist of the alteration of existing entrance, a kayak wash down area, set down area, connections to public water main and public sewer and all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 22337

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons (1st Division).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons (1st Division).

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2586 (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 (1st Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Commons (1st Division)

Area

97,851 m² (9.79 ha, 24.18 acres)

Civil parish

Trim, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Lower

Electoral division

Trim Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Trim Rural electoral division: 9,201 people in 3,063 households; 74% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crowpark (1st Division), Manorland (2nd Division), Newhaggard, Townparks North, Townparks South

Placenames

Commons (1st Division) 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.