# Commons (1st Division), Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 97,851 m² (9.79 ha, 24.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,361 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Trim, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/trim.md - Barony: Moyfenrath Lower - Electoral division: Trim Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39194 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160461 - Centre: latitude 53.556013, longitude -6.801113 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons (1st Division), from 5 m² to 17,239 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 161522: 17,239 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161522.md - Parcel 211574: 16,070 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211574.md - Parcel 211633: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211633.md - Parcel 158385: 1,806 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/158385.md - Parcel 167074: 917 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/167074.md - Parcel 188350: 894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/188350.md - Parcel 5286498: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5286498.md - Parcel 5286434: 5 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5286434.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan - M2 B1 - 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: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan - G3 H1 - 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: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 25 Jun 2026, Meath County Council 2660788: N/a. Permission, 139 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660788/0 - 22 Apr 2022, Meath County Council 22543: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22543/0 - 16 Mar 2022, Meath County Council 22337: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/22337/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC, site code 002299, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002299 - Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA, site code 004232, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004232 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons (1st Division). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons (1st Division). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2586.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/commons-1st-division.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/commons-1st-division.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/commons-1st-division.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Crowpark (1st Division): https://everytownland.com/meath/crowpark-1st-division.md - Manorland (2nd Division): https://everytownland.com/meath/manorland-2nd-division.md - Newhaggard: https://everytownland.com/meath/newhaggard-161218.md - Townparks North: https://everytownland.com/meath/townparks-north.md - Townparks South: https://everytownland.com/meath/townparks-south.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/commons-1st-division - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/commons-1st-division