Toor Commons
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbixy, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 108853
- Area
- 75,297 m² (7.53 ha, 18.61 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
- Toor Commons
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.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
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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
- 6.1 ha
- 15 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 5,394 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor Commons, from 3,845 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres) to 33,290 m² (3.33 ha, 8.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Toor Commons 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
23 Feb 2024Conditional
development which will consist/consists of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 140 hectares consisting of the following: 781,578sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 17 hardstanding locations for the installation of electrical skids; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-5802, R-393, L-5913, L-1811 and the L-5808 public roads; a new access point and an upgrade to an existing access point along the R-393 public road and a new access point along the L-5808 public road; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; boundary fencing; and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460050
25 Mar 2022Conditional
Construction of 1 No. bell mouth entrance with access road so as to facilitate access into existing forestry plantation for the removal of timber and all ancillary works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22143
4 Mar 2022N/a
The proposed construction of 1 no bell mouth entrance with access road so as to facilitate access into existing forestry plantation for the removal of timber and all ancillary works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2292
27 Mar 2020Refused
to widen existing forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 206078
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 Toor Commons.
Recorded monuments
- WM011-083 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated on grassland bordered to E by a stream which marks the townland boundary with Toor Commons. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and annotated as ‘Cromeen’s Well’. No trace of this site visible. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Toor Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Toor Commons
- Area
- 61,327 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbixy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Kilbixy, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhoreen, Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, Ballysallagh (fox), Ballysallagh (tuite)
- Placenames
- Toor 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. 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.