Common

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common, from 19 m² to 104,993 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Common in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

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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.

Recorded monuments

• DG082-004 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal Diam 15.3m. A subcircular area enclosed for the most part by a collapsed stone wall except on the NE where a curving field boundary wall probably reflects the original limits of the enclosure. On the NW side traces of facing stones suggest a wall width of 1.5m. The wall collapse is evident only as a grassed-over rise .2m in height. The site is located in fair pasture but the interior has been planted with conifers. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG082-005 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 24.4m. A subcircular area enclosed by a grassed-over, collapsed stone wall except for the N to E quadrant where it makes use of a cliff edge of the knoll on which it stands. The remains suggest a wall width of 1.6m. Just W of S a tangential wall base extends out from the enclosing wall in an E direction for 15.2m. It is situated on a knoll, with a steep E side, in an area of poor pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with single-storey extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with mesh over, thatch tied to stone pegs built into walls, and having two rendered chimneystacks; flat felt roof to extension. Limewashed rendered walls with square-headed openings, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, painted stone sills and replacement timber door. Single-storey outbuilding to northwest with pitched corrugated-iron roof having render copings, and rendered walls. Square-plan rendered piers to entrance with metal gate, associated cattle grid and timber pedestrian gate. Rubble stone garden wall to front of house.

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, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1156 (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.

• Common, Ardara6 sales

Name

Common

Area

631,680 m² (63.17 ha, 156.09 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

694 people lived in 263 households in the Glengesh electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aighe, Bracky, Cashel, Glengesh, Scaddaman

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Common 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.