Common North

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common North, from 33 m² to 17,822 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  for change of use of agricultural land for use as an existing yard for storage of land reclaimation machinery and drainage material. Retention of earth bunding to help screen the development as constructed. Retention of existing entrance as constructed, permission for the construction of a new storage shed for agricultural machinery, permission for temporary welfare facilities (portaloo and staff canteen) and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660710

• 3 Nov 2025Refused

  for a two storey dwelling, domestic garage and effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25169

• 30 Jun 2025Refused

  for installation of new Sepcon BAF waste water treatment system, Installation of new polishing filter and infiltration bed, Decommissioning of existing waste water treatment system. All ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25118

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  for (a) The installation of Ball Stop netting to the existing 4 no. GFC goal posts (goal posts 1 & 2 are located within the GFC playing pitch 1 and goal posts 3 & 4 are located within the GFC playing pitch no. 2) and (b) All associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460808

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  for (a) Erection of 8Nr, 10m high floodlighting columns to existing playing pitch with associated light fittings, (b) removal of existing temporary lighting columns along with site infrastructure works, landscaping works and all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23880

• 11 Aug 2023N/a

  The development will consist of the following works, planning permission for (a) Erection of 8Nr, 10m high floodlighting columns to existing playing pitch with associated light fittings, (b) removal of existing temporary lighting columns along with site infrastructure works, landscaping works and all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23843

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  (A) construction of a dormer type house, (B) Garage/Store for domestic use, (C) Installation of a Corcoran Effluent Treatment System and Ecoflo Tertiary system percolation area and (D) New vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22892

• 2 Feb 2022Refused

  for (A) construction of a dormer type house, (B) Garage/Store for domestic use, (C) Installation of a Corcoran Effluent Treatment System and Ecoflo Tertiary system percolation area and (D) New vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22104

• 6 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a 24 metre monopole tower carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets enclosed within a 2.4m palisade fence compound with temporary access track

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21452

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  (a) Erection of a single storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) Installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (d) New combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201130

• 24 Sept 2020N/a

  (A) erection of a single storey type house, (B) Garage/ fuel store for domestic use, (C) installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (D) New combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway and all associated site works,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201093

• 16 Jan 2017Conditional

  of a single story pre-fabricated shed for storage, and work area use along with conreate wall boundary

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 1721

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 Common North.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Common North.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Common North.

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

At the centre of the townland of Common North, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2572 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Common North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Common North

Area

451,764 m² (45.18 ha, 111.63 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Ballysax West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,233 people lived in 415 households in the Ballysax West electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfair, Brownstown Little, Brownstown Upper, Carn, Churchland East, Churchland South, Crockaun, Emlagher, Martinstown, Newtown, Suncroft

Placenames

Common North 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.