Greatcommon

147 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greatcommon, from 9 m² to 44,072 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 82 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 100 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2TC - Town and District Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 46 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 36 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1RA - Residential Area (New/proposed residential)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 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
• S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
  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.

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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 Greatcommon.

Recorded monuments

• DU008-075 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  This bullaun stone now lies outside entrance to St Macculin's modern R.C. church. It was the stone which formerly lay inside the tower of the medieval church (DU008-010004-) at Lusk. Hunt (1974, 146) recorded that; 'Within the tower is a 17th century font, bullaun stone and portion of a fireplace removed from Bremore castle, decorated in false relief with six shields bearing arms surrounding the Annunciation (Roe 1979, 140)'. It may be the stone which formerly lay beside St Macculin's well (DU008-010007-) (Ó Danachair 1958, 73). Cross-reference with DU008-010001- Compiled and Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 July 2023

Architectural heritage

• Lusk National School, school, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey school, built 1874.ROOF: Hipped; slate; terracotta roof ridge tiles; cast-iron gutters and downpipes; partially rendered red brick stacks; clay pots. WALLS: Pebble dash walls with verminculated limestone quoining. OPENINGS: Segmental headed red brick dressed openings; brick reveals; recessed porch entrance; segmental headed limestone cills; door to left probably original two leaf tongue and groove door with textured glass over light & panels; 6/6 timber casement windows

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of round fluted profile with a curved handle.

• Saint MacCullin's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay neo-Romanesque Catholic church, built 1924, with a full-height apse, two-bay gabled transept having a square profile single-bay three-stage entrance tower, single-storey side aisle and sacristy. Architect, J.J.Robinson. Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke. Surrounded by graveyard.ROOF: L-plan, double pitched; slate; terracotta ridge tiles; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Rockfaced snecked granite. OPENINGS: Round headed neo-Romanesque bi-partite and tri-partite windows; carved granite surrounds; round headed carved portals; timber panelled doors with decorative hinges. INTERIOR: Barrel vaulted nave; groin vaulted aisle; tri-partite clerestory windows; neo-Romanesque arcade between nave and aisle; semicircular apse with stained glass tri-partite windows; cantilevered timber balcony; niches to nave containing confessionals.

• Water pump, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1895, of square profile with a curved handle.

• Lusk Community Hall, library/archive, 1900–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey Carnegie Free library, built 1908, with a recessed single-bay single-storey entrance bay to right-hand side. Single-storey extension to left c.1997. Now in use as a community hall.ROOF: Double pitched gable-fronted slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and timber barge boards; chimney stack with granite detail rendered coping to tall and smaller stacks; asbestos roof tiles to extension. WALLS: Random rubble walls with thick cement pointing and red brick quoins. OPENINGS: Tri-partite windows and square headed windows with red brick dressed openings; granite cills and uPVC casements; timber panelled door with carved limestone tablet above with inscription "Carnagie Free Library 1908".

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of square profile with a curved handle.

• Store/warehouse, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of single-storey gable-fronted stores or warehouses, c.1890, once used as a Catholic chapel.ROOF: Double pitched; artificial slate and corrugated-iron; terracotta and iron ridging; decorative timber barge boards to building to left. WALLS: Rendered quoins to left building; roughcast render. OPENINGS: Pointed arched windows to gables; boarded up; square headed tongue & grooved double doors; having timber lintel above building to right. Square headed windows; render reveals; concrete cills; replacement timber casements.

• Lusk Post Office, post office, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey post office, c.1915, with rendered shopfront.ROOF: Double pitched slate roof hipped to left side with terracotta tiles and red brick chimney stacks with brick cornices; terracotta chimney pots; uPVC rainwater goods and timber eaves. WALLS: Rendered channelling and string course to ground floor; pebble dashed and rendered quoins to first floor; rendered pilasters, panels and fascia shopfront. OPENINGS: Square headed rendered architraves; uPVC casements; fixed timber shop windows; moulded rendered recessed porch. Entrance moulded door surround and timber panelled door with overlight.

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of square profile with a curved handle.

• Rose Cottage, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1860, with projecting entrance porch. Retaining original fenestration.ROOF: Double pitched roof gabled to right, hipped to left with corrugated iron roof to rear pitch; two brick chimney stacks with clay pots; cast-iron rain water goods; slate roofs to front and rear porches. WALLS: Rough cast render walls. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered soffits and reveals & cills; 2/2 timber sashes; rear door original tongue & groove timber door; repaired at bottom; front door 1940's timber door, with textured glass overlight in rendered projecting gable.

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 Greatcommon, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Greatcommon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Greatcommon · An Coimín Mór

Area

793,659 m² (79.37 ha, 196.12 acres)

Civil parish

Lusk, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Lusk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,774 people lived in 3,341 households in the Lusk electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballough, Causestown, Collinstown, Lusk, Raheny, Rallekaystown, Regles, Tyrrelstown Big, Tyrrelstown Little

Placenames

Greatcommon 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.