Commons

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 40 m² to 109,863 m² (10.99 ha, 27.15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Commons 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.

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211757

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of an agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191152

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling, hay barn and sheds and construct a replacement dwelling, garage entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191151

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 Commons.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-089 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy pasture, on a N-facing slope. A roughly oval-shaped mound of burnt material (6.6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.85m). The mound is denuded in places by cattle. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Oval area (33m N-S; 37.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.65m; Wth 4.45m) NE->WNW, and enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.95m) with external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m) WNW->NE. Stone facing on external face of bank at N shows it was incorporated into field boundary system; a field boundary abuts it at WNW and NE. Interior is under pasture and slopes down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope, and immediately N of road. Circular area (31m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m). Inner bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 3.3m) evident all round, highest internally (H 1.05m) at SW. Outer bank (int. H 1.65m; ext. H 1.7m) survives SW->SE. Entrance (Wth c. 5m), with causeway across fosse, at SE; cattle gap (Wth c. 2m) through both banks at NW. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-175 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In flat marshy pasture below the SE slope of Ballylin Hill, the townland boundary with Ballylin is 60m to NW. The site is immediately adjacent to a fulacht fia (LI028-089----) and both sites (LI028-174/-089----) may be the same monument. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. A mound is visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Jerry McMahon of Ardagh ( member of the Newcastle Historical Society) in 1986 in correspondence with the ASI (SMR File). Two distinct field anomalies are visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 10/20/2010 and 08/04/2015. A mound is visible on the field surface on a Google Street View Capture taken 09/2019 from the R523 looking NW. See attached location map prepared by Jerry McMahon, Google Earth orthoimages and Google Street View Capture 2019 Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 24 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Commons.

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.

No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Commons · An Coimín

Area

356,142 m² (35.61 ha, 88 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 1,037 people in 384 households; 83% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Ballylin, Coolcronoge, Dunganville Upper, Reerasta North, Reerasta South

Placenames

Commons 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.