Commons East
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcock, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Coimín Thoir
Parcel 6046713
- Area
- 219 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 75 m² on the ground
- 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 East
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2752 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 6.6 ha
- 16 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 238 m²
- Zoning
- G1
- F1 - Open Space
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons East, from 27 m² to 44,269 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 4 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
27 Feb 2026Conditional
For the installation of 3 no. rooflights to the front roof slope of the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling, along with internal alterations to the attic space to facilitate its use as a home office, guest bedroom, and ancillary storage.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660211
18 Feb 2026N/a
the installation of 3 no. rooflights to the front roof slope of the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling, along with internal alterations to the attic space to facilitate its use as a home office, guest bedroom, and ancillary storage. No additional plumbing or drainage works are proposed as part of this application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660150
20 Nov 2025N/a
The installation of 3 no. rooflights to the front roof slope of the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling, along with internal alterations to the attic space to facilitate its use as a home office, guest bedroom, and ancillary storage. No additional plumbing or drainage works are proposed as part of this application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561311
17 Nov 2025N/a
the installation of 3 no. rooflights to the front roof slope of the existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling, along with internal alterations to the attic space to facilitate its use as a home office, guest bedroom, and ancillary storage. No additional plumbing or drainage works are proposed as part of this application
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561295
23 Jun 2023Conditional
(a) single storey family flat type extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, (b) 2 no. rooflights in attic space along front roof plane of the existing dwelling house, (c) connection to all existing site services nd all associated development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 23707
30 May 2023Conditional
the construction of an artificial grass multi-use games area, associated earth retaining structure, access pathway, perimeter fence to the playing surface and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23580
28 Apr 2023N/a
of the construction of an artificial grass multi-use games area, associated earth retaining structure, access pathway, perimeter fence to the playing surface, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23452
25 Mar 2022Conditional
development consists of: The installation of 539 sqm of photo-voltaic solar panels onto the existing supermarket roof. The solar panels will be used to create green electricity, all of which will be used by the store
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22330
24 May 2021Conditional
the construction of an artificial grass multi-sport playing surface, perimeter fence to the playing surface, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21715
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 East.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons East.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2752 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Commons East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Commons East · An Coimín Thoir
- Area
- 66,349 m² (6.63 ha, 16.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Kilcock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcock electoral division: 8,896 people in 2,853 households; 69% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dolanstown (Co. Meath), Kilcock, Newtownmoyaghy (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Commons East 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.