Peake
Townland in the civil parish of Aghabulloge, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish An Phéic
- Area
- 146.3 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 3,124 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Peake, from 163 m² to 381,328 m² (38.13 ha, 94.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Peake 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
21 Apr 2026Prepare mo
Permission for a dwelling house, an effluent treatment system, a new entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1014
16 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the installation of a 2 cubicle toilet container, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6812
11 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a 12,600m2 grass playing pitch, 5,420m2 grass training area, 3,900m2 hardstand car park, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4428
25 Aug 2021Conditional
Dwellinghouse, effluent treatment system and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6347
14 May 2018Incompleted application
Construction of an agricultural entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5219
14 May 2018Conditional
Construction of an agricultural entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5222
29 Apr 2015Conditional
To raise the levels of poor land back to agricultural land by placing on site surplus construction materials i.e. inert soil/rock and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4885
29 May 2014Refused
Raising of levels of poor land back to agricultural land by placing on site of surplus construction materials i.e. inert soil/rock and topsoil, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/4234
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5128
28 Jan 2009Conditional
Raising of levels of poor land back to agricultural land by placing on site of surplus construction materials ie. inert soil/rock and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4234
4 Sept 2008Conditional
Construction of single storey extension to side of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8734
20 Dec 2007Refused
Bungalow and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13243
4 Dec 2007Conditional
Dwelling and installation of effluent treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12848
22 Jun 2007Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8909
28 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and common entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10976
2 Jun 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7751
20 Apr 2006Conditional
Alterations, ground floor and first floor extension to dwelling, construction of garage and installation of proprietary treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6541
19 Apr 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6490
20 Jun 2005Conditional
Erection of bungalow and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4285
23 May 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3526
5 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5112
28 Jan 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/387
10 Oct 2003Conditional
Dormer dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5072
16 Apr 2003Conditional
Alterations, ground floor and first floor extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1786
3 Mar 2003Conditional
Agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/885
30 Jan 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/320
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 Peake.
Recorded monuments
- CO061-175 Country house
Description
Rectangular house, 2-storey over basement; of early 19th-century appearance. Entrance front (E) of 5 bays; central door approached by flight of stone steps with semicircular fanlight, door flanked by pairs of slim engaged classical columns. Central 1st-floor window ope flanked by side lights. Hipped roof with two off-centre chimneys. Stone-built farmbuildings to rear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO061-176 Bridge
Description
Road bridge (Wth 6.7m) over Delehinagh River. Two semicircular arches; roughly cut voussoirs; pointed breakwater. Overflow channel at W side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO072-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Circular area (diam. 36m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.2m); shallow external fosse to NW. Bank stone-faced externally on NW side; entrance to S. According to Hartnett (1939, 81) 'this was a double-ramparted fort, but the outer bank is erased except at the NW where a later field fence curves along its line'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO072-008 Souterrain
Description
Discovered in 1755 and investigated by the Rev. Marmaduke Cox (Smith 1750, vol. 2, 409-10). Passage leading into fifteen, possibly seventeen, large chambers (H c. 1.5m); access to further chambers blocked by large stone. One chamber said to contain five hundred skeletons, another five, some of which were burnt; carved wood comb and comb-case also found. Rev. Cox (ibid.) noted that the souterrain was 'about 150 yards' from a 'Danish fort,' probably the ringfort (CO072-009---) to the E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO072-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Depicted on 1938 OS 6-inch map as roughly oval area (c. 50m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) defined by hachured scarp W->SE and by field boundary elsewhere; by hachured scarp W->N on 1904 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, c. 75m to E of possible souterrain (CO072-008---). Circular area (diam. 43m) raised c. 0.7m above surrounding land level. Rev. M. Cox, writing in 1755 (Smith 1750, vol. 2, 410) referred to this as a 'Danish fort'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Peake.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Peake.
- 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 Peake with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Peake · An Phéic
- Area
- 1,463,340 m² (146.33 ha, 361.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghabulloge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Clonmoyle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonmoyle electoral division: 608 people in 205 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavrin, Carrignamuck, Clonmoyle East, Clonmoyle West, Clontead More, Coolacullig
- Placenames
- Peake 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.