Common South
Common South is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyshannon, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare.
Parcel 5443821
- Area
- 831 m²
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 595 m².
- Zoning
- S5 Community and Education (Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft) The objective
R2 Existing Residential / Infill (Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft) The objective
M2 Village Centre (Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft) The objective - Townland
- Common South
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2572 (ZIP).
- 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
- 2 ha
- 5 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 831 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common South, from 596 m² to 1,060 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 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
17 Jun 2026Refused
Extension of Duration: 6no. dwelling houses as follows: 3no. 3 bedroom 2 storey terrace houses, Block A on sites 1-3 inclusive and 3no. 2 storey 3 bedroom terrace houses, Block B on sites 4-6 inclusive. Connection to mains sewer, access roads, car parking and all associated site development works
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 2675
14 Feb 2024Conditional
for modifications and change of use of an existing building to the current use as a dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460118
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Common South.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Common South.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Common South.
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 Common South, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2572 (ZIP).
- 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 Common South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Common South
- Area
- 20,008 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyshannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Kilrush, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 698 people lived in 228 households in the Kilrush electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Common South 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.