Commons
Townland in the civil parish of Duncormick, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Coimín
- Area
- 49.2 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,182 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons, from 1,865 m² to 389,920 m² (38.99 ha, 96.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 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
5 Mar 2026Refused
Permission for retention is sought from Wexford County Council for the workshop
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260279
20 Mar 2025Refused
Permission for the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250315
8 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic store,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231476
23 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR (A) THE RENOVATION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY D
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191430
16 Jun 2016Granted (unconditional)
THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110493
7 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
TEN-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE FOL
Permission, 239 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160623
31 May 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF 219 DWELLING UNITS, CRECH
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160589
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 Commons.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2852 (ZIP).
- 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 Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Commons · An Coimín
- Area
- 491,591 m² (49.16 ha, 121.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duncormick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Killag, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killag electoral division: 508 people in 176 households; 89% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellgrovecross, Duncormick, Gibberwell, Glebe, Nicharee
- 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.