Ring Commons
Ring Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Coimín na Roinne.
Parcel 1889376
- Area
- 2,878 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 266 m².
- Zoning
- P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Ring Commons
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 70.5 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,832 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ring Commons, from 681 m² to 44,705 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 0 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
1 Jul 2026Refuse permission & refuse retention
The development will consist of Retention of existing building which c
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0572E
27 Mar 2026Withdraw application
Planning Permission for the installation of 3 no. modular, portable Pa
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0254E
18 May 2018Refuse permission
Permission for the construction of new detached dormer style dwelling,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0262
16 Oct 2017Grant permission
New dormer style dwelling house accessed via existing entrance, new wa
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0638
3 May 2017Withdraw application
New dormer style dwelling house accessed via existing entrance, new wa
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0259
15 Sept 2015Refuse permission for retention
Retention of use of lands for the purpose of accommodating and retaini
Retention · Fingal County Council, F15A/0431
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bog Of The Ring 001204
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ring Commons.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ring 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ring Commons, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ring Commons.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ring Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Ring Commons · Coimín na Roinne
- Area
- 705,125 m² (70.51 ha, 174.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balscaddan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balscadden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% 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
- Balrickard, Belgee, Curragh East, Dermotstown, Haystown, Knock, Ring, Ring Commons (1st Division), Ring Commons (2nd Division), Rowans Big
- Placenames
- Ring 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.