Commons

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 512 m² to 6,729 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town / Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  a single storey extension to existing school building including removal of existing prefabricated buildings, demolition of existing corridor and toilets at the rear of the building and including all ancillary associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561052

• 18 Aug 2025N/a

  a single storey extension to existing school building including removal of existing prefabricated buildings, demolition of existing corridor and toilets at the rear of the building and including all ancillary associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560807

• 9 Jun 2025N/a

  a single storey extension to rear of existing warehouse, provision of additional yard area and associated boundaries to rear, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560523

• 18 Apr 2025N/a

  a single storey extension to existing school building including removal of existing prefabricated buildings, demolition of existing corridor and toilets at the rear of the building and including all ancillary associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560332

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of works to protect and stabilise the banks of the existing by-pass channel of the River Suir, and will comprise: (1) construction of rock armour along a linear stretch of 2.5m on both the eastern and western banks of the channel, adjacent to the abutments of the existing footbridge; (2) construction of rock armour along a linear stretch of 30m on the eastern bank of the channel (to the rear of the existing tennis courts); (3) construction of rock armour along a linear stretch of 30m on the western bank of the channel (immediately before the channel meets the River Suir); and, (4) all ancillary and temporary works including the provision of temporary accessways. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this Planning Application.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360958

• 23 Jul 2023N/a

  a) the change of use of existing commercial premises (hair dressers) to domestic use (dwelling) and b) associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360543

• 14 Jun 2022N/a

  bank protection and stabilisation works on both sides of the bypass channel of the River Suir from the footbridge at the Commons/the Green to the confluence with the main channel. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22412

• 9 Dec 2021N/a

  bank protection and stabilisation works on both sides of the bypass channel of the River Suir from the footbridge at the Commons/the Green to the confluence with the main channel. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211785

• 17 Aug 2018Conditional

  demolition of former creamery building and construction of new playground, including associated site boundary and site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601026

• 30 Jan 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of (a) construction of a free-standing single-storey extension comprising a mainstream classroom with ancillary facilities and covered walkway to the rear (south) of the existing building (b) return existing Resource Room prefab to location previously approved under planning ref 12/325 (c) associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600060

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS088-001002 Bridge
  Description

  Crossing the River Suir at Ardinnan in a N-S direction. The earliest record of a bridge in Ardfinnan occurs in 1311 when Edward II made a pontage grant to the reeve and men of the village (Chartae priv.imm. 44). In 1399, the Earl of Desmond was drowned here (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.1, 28; Power 1908, 13). The 'Bridge of Ardfynane' is also mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 (Simington 1931, vol.1, 260). It appears that this point on the Suir was a fording point even before the bridge was built, as is reflected in it's name 'Ath-Arda-Fionain (the Ford of Ardfinnan)' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.2, 28). The bridge (Wth 6.45m) with a parapet (H 1.15m; T 0.45) consists of nine spans, with three overflows, and eight triangular cut-waters on its E face. It is largely constructed of randomly coursed limestone rubble with cut-stone voussoirs employed around the semi-circular arch-rings of each span. The arch soffits are rendered with concrete. The parapet is capped with large flat roughly cut capstones except at the SE end where they have been replaced with concrete. There are a number of drainage holes placed at regular intervals in the parapet walls. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Family, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey presbyteries, built c.1900, with box-bay windows to front with hipped roofs, and slightly recessed single-bay single-storey additions to end elevations, with hipped roofs and moulded eaves courses. Hipped artificial slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks, and moulded red and yellow brick eaves course. Painted rendered walls with red brick quoins, plat-bands at impost and sill levels, cross in circle motif to centre of combined elevation, and rendered plinth. Pseudo-four-centred openings to front and end elevations, paired to end elevations, with red brick voussoirs, having replacement aluminium windows, paired to bay windows, with rendered sills. Square-headed windows to rear elevation, with painted sills. Replacement aluminium doors with red brick surrounds. Rubble limestone piers and walls to site boundary, concrete block wall dividing front gardens, all with flat concrete capping and recent metal gates.

• Catholic Church of the Holy Family, church/chapel, 1960–1965 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1964, with altar at south end in slightly narrower one-bay chancel, and having seven-bay nave elevations, flat-roofed sacristy to southwest corner, flat-roofed single-storey boiler-room and family room block to southeast corner, five-stage bell-tower slightly recessed to northwest corner, and flat-roofed confessional projections to east and west elevations of nave. Pitched tiled roof, render eaves course, render chimneystack to boiler room, and pyramidal tiled roof to tower, with metal cross finials to tower and gable-front. Pebble-dashed walls with concrete quoins to all corners, and plinth. Double-height round-headed blind recess to gable-front, with decorative render to eaves, concrete block walls, quoins, archivolt and keystone. Round-headed windows throughout, with concrete surrounds and sills, those of gable-front, nave and chancel having block-and-start surrounds with raised keystones and having stained and coloured glass. Arrangement of three round-headed window openings to recess of gable-front, flanking each side of recess, and to side walls of chancel. Groups of round-headed windows to flat-roof blocks and to top stage of tower. Square-headed door openings to gable-front, with timber panelled doors and over-lights, approached by flight of steps to gable-front. Flat coffered ceiling to interior, marble altar furniture, rendered balcony at entrance end, and decorative render throughout nave and chancel. Concrete piers and plinth with steel railings to site boundary. Stone and render monument of 1875 to site.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Commons.

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.

No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Commons · An Coimín

Area

69,757 m² (6.98 ha, 17.24 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfinnan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Ardfinnan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardfinnan electoral division: 1,178 people in 453 households; 81% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardfinnan, Farraneshagh, Gortnalower, Kilballygorman, Magherareagh, Monroe East

Placenames

Commons 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.