Commons (3rd Division)
Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 4.1 ha
- 10 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 191 m²
- Zoning
- M1
- C1 - Mixed Use
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons (3rd Division), from 3 m² to 3,947 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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
- M1C1 - Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 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
20 Dec 2017Conditional
the development will consist of demolition of conservatory to front of existing premises, construct new double height front entrance porch, modifications to existing windows and front facade of building together with all associated site works. The development also includes modifications to existing front boundary wall and pedestrian entrance to include new railings and gate
Permission · Meath County Council, TA171487
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 (3rd Division).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons (3rd Division).
Architectural heritage
- Wellington Lodge, house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1835. Roughly coursed limestone walls. Hipped artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Square-headed openings with cement rendered block-and-start surrounds. Rubble stone boundary wall.
- Gate lodge, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Pair of two-bay single-storey former gate lodges, built c.1835, now disused. Pitched slate or tile roofs. Roughly-dressed stone walls, with ashlar limestone quoins. Recessed arch to pedimented gable walls incorporating window opening with brick lintel. Ashlar limestone block-and-start doorcases. Brick dressings and stone sill to windows.
- Gates/railings/walls, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Squared rubble limestone boundary walls, built c.1835, with ashlar coping. Accessed through round-headed arch with flanking piers having cornice above. Flanked by pedestrian gates with ashlar limestone surrounds. Double and single cast- and wrought-iron gates to openings. Theses entrances are protected by gun loops in a flanking wall.
- Wellington Pillar, monument, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding limestone built memorial, erected 1817. Comprising a Corinthian column on a panelled pedestal surmounted by statue of the Duke of Wellington. Pedestal stands on steps which are surrounded by cast-iron spear-headed railings and by a cast-iron chain supported by carved limestone bollards. Inscription in raised lettering on north face and carved benchmark on south face of pedestal.
- Trim Technical School, school, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Detached nine-bay two-storey technical school, built c. 1935 with central projecting entrance bay. Cement rendered walls with decorative render panels flanking entrance bay, and between floors. Hipped artificial slate roof. Square-headed openings with cast-iron pivot windows. Timber glazed double doors with overlight. Bounded by wrought-iron railings on concrete walls with concrete gate piers and wrought-iron gate.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- No susceptibility class 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Commons (3rd Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Commons (3rd Division)
- Area
- 41,051 m² (4.11 ha, 10.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Trim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Trim Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Trim Urban electoral division: 1,383 people in 589 households; 56% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Charterschoolland, Manorland (1st Division), Manorland (2nd Division), Townparks South
- Placenames
- Commons (3rd 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.