# Longhill Commons, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacanoge, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Coimín an Chnoic Fhada. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 28,080 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,548 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacanoge, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilmacanoge.md - Barony: Rathdown - Electoral division: Powerscourt, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55114 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251004 - Centre: latitude 53.158951, longitude -6.186068 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longhill Commons, from 1,372 m² to 1,723 m²; 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5180518: 1,723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180518.md - Parcel 1277515: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277515.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 2 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560683: Conditional. Permission. 4nr dormer roof windows to front elevation roof of dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560683/0 - 14 Jun 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460336: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to existing lane off existing road and associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460336/0 - 19 Sept 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360295: N/a. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to existing lane off existing road and associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360295/0 - 29 Aug 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360237: N/a. Permission. new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to existing lane off existing road and associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360237/0 - 21 Oct 2021, Wicklow County Council 211266: Conditional. Permission. single storey extension to the side of existing house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211266/0 - 22 Apr 2021, Wicklow County Council 21453: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21453/0 - 18 May 2017, Wicklow County Council 17567: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17567/0 - 4 Apr 2017, Wicklow County Council 17363: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17363/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longhill Commons. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Longhill Commons. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longhill Commons. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/wicklow/longhill-commons.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/longhill-commons.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/longhill-commons.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinagee: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinagee-250074.md - Ballinteskin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinteskin-250128.md - Ballybawn Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybawn-lower.md - Ballyremon Commons: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyremon-commons.md - Coolakay: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolakay.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/deerpark-250629.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/wicklow/longhill-commons - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/longhill-commons