Commons (2nd Division)

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons (2nd Division), from 212 m² to 3,447 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• M2RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 21 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 · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 9 Feb 2024Grant permission

  The development will consist of

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0093

• 5 Dec 2017Grant permission

  Permission to demolish an existing single storey extension (rear),

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0536

• 27 Sept 2017Grant permission

  Erect a single one and a half dwelling house with garage and ancillary

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0587

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 (2nd Division).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons (2nd Division).

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1819, with three bays to side elevations. Single-bay sacristy with bellcote over gable to east. ROOF: Double pitched slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rain water goods, stone cross to front gable, nap rendered chimney stack to rear gable with bellcote above. WALLS: Nap rendered, lined and ruled with nap rendered plinth course. OPENINGS: Gothic arched window and door openings, rendered reveals, limestone cills, original Gothic arched timber sash windows, later stained glass windows, square headed door opening with limestone hood moulding, limestone door surround, tongue and groove timber door. INTERIOR:Timber gallery.

• House, 1750–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey formerly thatched house, c.1800, now with corrugated-iron roof. Outbuilding attached to west. ROOF: Hipped corrugated-iron with curved swept hip ends, originally thatched, with a nap rendered chimney stack. WALLS: Nap rendered. OPENINGS: Square headed with nap rendered reveals, stone cills, timber casments and timber panelled door, c.1980.

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 (2nd Division), 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 (2nd Division).

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 (2nd Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Commons (2nd Division) · An Coimín (an Dara Roinn)

Area

57,346 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 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

Balscaddan, Grange, Tobertown

Placenames

Commons (2nd Division) 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.