Commons (5th Division)
Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 2 ha
- 5 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 563 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- H1 - High Amenity
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons (5th Division), from 12 m² to 8,207 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 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
- G3H1 - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 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
12 Apr 2024Conditional
the development will consist of the following (a) demolition of existing porch to front and kitchen extension to rear of existing dwelling, (b) and construction of new single storey extension to side and rear, together with new front porch, (c) Change of use of existing domestic garage to habitable accommodation, (d) The development also includes fitting external insulation to entire dwelling, (e) modifications to elevations and existing plan layout, (f) together with connection to existing mains services on site and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 24161
30 Sept 2021Conditional
the demolition of the existing two storey dwelling with attached garage and associated outbuildings, the construction of seven new two storey dwellings: two pairs of semi-detached houses and one terrace of three houses all with individual entrances off the Dublin Road, connection to public services, and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Assessment will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission, 7 homes · Meath County Council, 211914
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
- 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 (5th Division).
Architectural heritage
- The Cottage, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1880, with gabled and glazed projecting entrance bay. Roughcast rendered walls with cement rendered quoins. Half-hipped slate roof with cast-iron ridge cresting, eaves dentils and cement rendered chimneystacks. Square-headed openings with timber two-over-two sash windows. Corrugated-iron outbuildings to rear.
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
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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_2613 (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 (5th Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Commons (5th Division)
- Area
- 19,783 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 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
- Blackfriary (2nd Division), Commons (7th Division), Friarspark (1st Division), Friaryland (3rd Division), Maudlin
- Placenames
- Commons (5th 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.