Commons of Carney
Commons of Carney is a townland in the civil parish of Finnoe, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Coimín Charnaí.
Parcel 568908
- Area
- 16,812 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Commons of Carney
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 5 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 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.
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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
- 112.5 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 9,184 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons of Carney, from 38 m² to 94,554 m² (9.46 ha, 23.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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
No zone of a development plan covers Commons of Carney 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Nov 2025Conditional
1. the single storey dwelling extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling. 2. Full planning permission for the proposed installation of a new wastewater treatment system with sand polishing filter
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561171
6 Oct 2025N/a
of existing single storey extension to side and rear of dwelling and proposed installation of new wastewater treatment unit and sand polishing filter
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561002
27 Nov 2020Conditional
an agricultural shed for livestock with underground effluent storage tank, including associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201416
31 Jan 2020Conditional
construction of beef unit with associated holding pens, effluent storage tanks, yard slab and site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2082
11 Oct 2019N/a
construction of beef unit with associated holding pens, effluent storage tanks, yard slabs and site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601123
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 Commons of Carney.
Recorded monuments
- TN009-066 Bullaun stone
Description
Large granite conglomerate boulder (dims. 0.9m x 0.7m x 0.4m) with quartz inclusions containing a deep central depression (diam. 0.5m x 0.32m; D 0.25m), a second depression exists on the underside of the boulder. Originally found in a field beside an old building that was locally believed to have been a possible church. This building was located in the adjoining townland of Carrigagown North. Moved from original location and now kept in the grounds of a private house at Skehanagh (TN009-065). A second bullaun stone (TN009-066001/067) was discovered at the site and was moved to the grounds of the R.C. church in the nearby village of Kilbarron (Newchapel). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN009-066001 Bullaun stone
Description
Large granite conglomerate bullaun stone (TN009-066) originally found in a field beside an old building that was locally believed to have been a possible church. This building was located in the adjoining townland of Carrigagown North. Moved from original location and now kept in the grounds of a private house at Skehanagh (TN009-065). A second bullaun stone (TN009-066001) was discovered at the site and was moved to the grounds of the R.C. church in the nearby village of Kilbarron (Newchapel) (TN009-067). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN010-021 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Situated on a N-S ridge of rock outcrop in undulating countryside. A large flat-topped cairn of loosely piled stones (H 2.5m; base diam. 11m) with a slight depression on top. Disused limekiln located nearby to the S of the cairn. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN010-094 Mound
Description
Situated on natural rock outcrop in undulating countryside. An irregular-shaped flat-topped mound (H 1.5m at SW, 0.4m at NE; base diam. 18m N-S; 12m E-W), scarped along its SW face giving it a man-made appearance. It is probably natural rock outcrop which was scarped at SW and flattened on top during the construction of a road which intersects the mound at S. Of doubtful antiquity; not marked on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Finnoe School, school, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey school, built c.1820, having entrance porch to south. Pitched slate roofs. Rendered chimneystack to north gable. Lime render to walls. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills. Timber battened door to porch.
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 Commons of Carney, about 1 in 5 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 Commons of Carney.
- 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
- Commons of Carney, Nenagh5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Commons of Carney · Coimín Charnaí
- Area
- 1,124,703 m² (112.47 ha, 277.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Finnoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Finnoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 209 people lived in 71 households in the Finnoe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boherleigh, Carneybrack, Carneywoodlands, Carrigagown North, Carrigagown South, Firgrove, Garryncurry, Glenaviegh, Graigillane, Kyleomadaun East, Kyleomadaun West, Oldcourt
- Placenames
- Commons of Carney 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.