# Commons, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mullingar, barony of Moyashel and Magheradernon, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 58,676 m² (5.87 ha, 14.5 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 225 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Established Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Mullingar, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/mullingar.md - Barony: Moyashel and Magheradernon - Electoral division: Mullingar North Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Mullingar North Urban electoral division: 5,877 people in 2,258 households; 45% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51892 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230452 - Centre: latitude 53.526598, longitude -7.349943 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 34 m² to 11,356 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 119816: 11,356 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/119816.md - Parcel 118744: 672 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118744.md - Parcel 118128: 528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118128.md - Parcel 118125: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118125.md - Parcel 118757: 403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118757.md - Parcel 118116: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118116.md - Parcel 2891476: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2891476.md - Parcel 5050403: 379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5050403.md - Parcel 93984: 371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/93984.md - Parcel 3457126: 366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3457126.md - Parcel 93985: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/93985.md - Parcel 2708856: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2708856.md - Parcel 93452: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/93452.md - Parcel 118942: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118942.md - Parcel 2577417: 286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2577417.md - Parcel 93629: 281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/93629.md - Parcel 92541: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/92541.md - Parcel 5097815: 268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097815.md - Parcel 5059870: 264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059870.md - Parcel 2706998: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706998.md - Parcel 92971: 245 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/92971.md - Parcel 5159724: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159724.md - Parcel 118761: 243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118761.md - Parcel 2730618: 239 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2730618.md - Parcel 118118: 238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118118.md - Parcel 119812: 235 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/119812.md - Parcel 6049546: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6049546.md - Parcel 3295907: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3295907.md - Parcel 2728956: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2728956.md - Parcel 115136: 230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/115136.md - Parcel 118240: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118240.md - Parcel 92711: 222 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/92711.md - Parcel 5525592: 222 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5525592.md - Parcel 2431221: 218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2431221.md - Parcel 119231: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/119231.md - Parcel 118763: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118763.md - Parcel 2488018: 206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488018.md - Parcel 5370136: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5370136.md - Parcel 5133878: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5133878.md - Parcel 5819635: 198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5819635.md - Parcel 5417188: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5417188.md - Parcel 118941: 190 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118941.md - Parcel 118122: 186 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118122.md - Parcel 5489031: 183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489031.md - Parcel 2876939: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2876939.md - Parcel 4919903: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4919903.md - Parcel 4978099: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4978099.md - Parcel 4979331: 166 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4979331.md - Parcel 118940: 162 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118940.md - Parcel 5676616: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5676616.md - Parcel 118766: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118766.md - Parcel 93631: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/93631.md - Parcel 119657: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/119657.md - Parcel 5121803: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5121803.md - Parcel 119652: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/119652.md - Parcel 6017021: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6017021.md - Parcel 4942691: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942691.md - Parcel 118767: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/118767.md - Parcel 2573596: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2573596.md - Parcel 5247789: 123 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5247789.md - Parcel 5232176: 34 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232176.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Established Residential (Existing residential): MLAP 2014-2021, Westmeath; 63 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=467 - C1.1 Commercial (Commercial, retail): MLAP 2014-2021, Westmeath; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=471 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): MLAP 2014-2021, Westmeath; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=472 - G3 Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): MLAP 2014-2021, Westmeath; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/media/Volume%201%20Written%20Statement.pdf#page=472 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 18 May 2023, Westmeath County Council 2360135: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new front entrance porch, ground floor single storey flat roof and first floor pitched roof extensions to the side/rear of the existing end terrace house, renovations and refurbishments to the internal and external areas as shown, to include alterations to existing window openings, new works to the existing rear and side boundary treatments with all ancillary services and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360135/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal, site code 002103 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: No susceptibility class 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_2093, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2093.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/commons.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/commons.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/commons.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Mullingar: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/mullingar.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/commons - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/commons