Commons

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 139 m² to 122,275 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 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 Feb 2020Conditional

  To construct 2 glamping pods for short term holiday letting.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4295

• 22 Jan 2020Incompleted application

  To construct 2 Glamping pods for short term holiday letting.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4075

• 25 Mar 2013Conditional

  Permission for retention and permission for completion of relocated entrance to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/177

• 24 Jan 2013Incompleted application

  Permission for retention and permission for completion of relocated entrance to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/35

• 27 Jun 2011Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, access driveway off existing private laneway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/376

• 23 May 2011Incompleted application

  Construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, access driveway off existing private laneway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/302

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

• CO082-062 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Stone (H 1.5m; 1m x 0.4m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO082-113 Mass-rock
  Description

  In pasture sheltered by trees. According to local information, a mass-rock was located on a raised triangular area (8m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4m) in the SW corner of a field. The field is known locally as the 'altar field', though there is no evidence of an altar stone. A lintelled wall cup-board (Wth 0.7m; H 0.6m; D 0.75m) is built into the W end of the boundary wall at the S. A holly tree grows from a collection of mainly small stones piled randomly against the S wall to the E of the wall cup-board. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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

At the centre of the townland of Commons, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Commons · An Coimín

Area

453,647 m² (45.36 ha, 112.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmichael, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Carrigboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 174 households in the Carrigboy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigdangan, Derrygortnacloghy, Gortatanavally, Gortnalour, Johnstown

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.