Longhill Commons
Longhill Commons is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacanoge, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Coimín an Chnoic Fhada.
- Area
- 2.8 ha
- 7 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 1,548 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longhill Commons, from 1,372 m² to 1,723 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Longhill 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
2 Sept 2025Conditional
4nr dormer roof windows to front elevation roof of dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560683
14 Jun 2024Conditional
new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to existing lane off existing road and associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460336
19 Sept 2023N/a
new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to existing lane off existing road and associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360295
29 Aug 2023N/a
new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to existing lane off existing road and associated siteworks
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360237
21 Oct 2021Conditional
single storey extension to the side of existing house
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211266
22 Apr 2021Refused
change of use (removal of condition 2 of PRR 14/1561 ABP Ref. No PL27.243838) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21453
18 May 2017Conditional
demolition of existing sunroom and 2 detached sheds and permission for the construction of new single storey extension to rear of dwelling, new porch to front and minor alterations to existing vehicle entrance along with all necessary ancillary works to facilitate this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17567
4 Apr 2017Refused
60.4 sqm single storey extension to the western side of an existing 67 sqm single storey shed, the shed will continue to be used for domestic storage purposes only, ancillary to the use of the residential dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17363
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 Longhill Commons.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Longhill Commons.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longhill 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
- At the centre of the townland of Longhill Commons, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Longhill Commons.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Longhill Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Longhill Commons · Coimín an Chnoic Fhada
- Area
- 28,080 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacanoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Powerscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 889 people lived in 283 households in the Powerscourt electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagee, Ballinteskin, Ballybawn Lower, Ballyremon Commons, Coolakay, Deerpark
- Placenames
- Longhill 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.