Common
Common is a townland in the civil parish of Mulrankin, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Coimín.
Parcel 6115236
- Area
- 13,190 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 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
- Common
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
- 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.
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
- 46.4 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 3,214 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Common, from 40 m² to 13,190 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Common 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
7 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251277
25 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241315
25 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241316
6 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Outline planning permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20241086
28 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a domestic garden room comprising of office
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240605
20 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231557
14 Nov 2023N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house and a
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231368
7 Feb 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house.
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220145
13 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the alterations to an existing domestic garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211957
24 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention of the construction of a single storey extension to the
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210989
4 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMIISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALL WIT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181667
4 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO INSTALL 2 NO FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS (AS PER PREVIOUS APPROVED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170862
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.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Common.
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1910–1922 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, extant 1940, with "GR [Georgius Rex]" royal cipher. Set in concrete block wall.
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, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Common.
- 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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Common · An Coimín
- Area
- 464,453 m² (46.45 ha, 114.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mulrankin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Bridgetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 963 people lived in 323 households in the Bridgetown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycappoge, Harpoonstown, Moor, Mulrankin, Rathronan, Shouks
- Placenames
- Common 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.