Commaun Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Templederry, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Comán Beag
- Area
- 171.5 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 45,745 m² (4.57 ha, 11.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commaun Beg, from 503 m² to 541,419 m² (54.14 ha, 133.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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
No zone of a development plan covers Commaun Beg 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
No planning application touches the townland of Commaun Beg 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
- TN033-041001 Standing stone - pair
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in a valley, enclosed by high ground except to S. The immediate area is wet and rushy and has been planted with coniferous forest, as has the monument itself. The stone pair, composed of shaly limestone, is aligned on an NE-SW axis, with the larger stone (H 0.9m; L 1.6m; T 0.76m) to the SW and the smaller (H 0.82m; L 0.98m; T 0.13-0.25m) located 0.7m to the NE. The stones are roughly centrally placed within a kerbed enclosure (TN033-041002) which consists of a bank with internal and external stone revetment. Only the SE and SW portion of the bank survives. 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
- TN033-041002 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in a valley, enclosed by high ground except to S. The immediate area is wet and rushy and has been planted with coniferous forest, as has the monument itself. The stone pair (TN033-041001), composed of shaly limestone, is aligned on an NE-SW axis, with the larger stone to the SW and the smaller located 0.7m to the NE. The stones are roughly centrally placed within a kerbed enclosure (diam. 10.7m E-W), which consists of a bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.32m; ext. H 0.4m) with internal and external stone revetment. Only the SE and SW portion of the bank survives. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commaun Beg.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Commaun Beg.
- 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 Commaun Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Commaun Beg · An Comán Beag
- Area
- 1,715,098 m² (171.51 ha, 423.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templederry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Templederry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templederry electoral division: 115 people in 52 households; 94% of households own their home; 14% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commaun More, Cummer, Curreeny, Dawsonsbog, Gortahumma, Gortnagowna
- Placenames
- Commaun Beg 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.