# Peafield, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Gort na Pise. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 848,209 m² (84.82 ha, 209.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,000 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Castletown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27834 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100917 - Centre: latitude 52.957701, longitude -7.561921 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Peafield, from 53 m² to 367,251 m² (36.73 ha, 90.75 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 231938: 367,251 m² (36.73 ha, 90.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231938.md - Parcel 5892375: 142,977 m² (14.3 ha, 35.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5892375.md - Parcel 5008557: 103,399 m² (10.34 ha, 25.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008557.md - Parcel 234629: 55,035 m² (5.5 ha, 13.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234629.md - Parcel 243675: 45,683 m² (4.57 ha, 11.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243675.md - Parcel 254314: 40,364 m² (4.04 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254314.md - Parcel 5330076: 22,170 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5330076.md - Parcel 263426: 18,892 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263426.md - Parcel 265771: 11,614 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265771.md - Parcel 265954: 9,116 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265954.md - Parcel 252523: 7,147 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/252523.md - Parcel 234763: 4,538 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234763.md - Parcel 248555: 4,000 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248555.md - Parcel 264621: 3,409 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264621.md - Parcel 227755: 3,190 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227755.md - Parcel 264337: 2,295 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264337.md - Parcel 235734: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235734.md - Parcel 5008566: 1,099 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008566.md - Parcel 6081586: 746 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6081586.md - Parcel 6081598: 746 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6081598.md - Parcel 265249: 508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265249.md - Parcel 3380618: 469 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3380618.md - Parcel 6081557: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6081557.md - Parcel 6081591: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6081591.md - Parcel 6081609: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6081609.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Peafield 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 12 Aug 2026, Laois County Council 2660545: N/a. Retention. retain a stable building with an associated lean-to storage shed, constructed in a revised layout and form to that previously permitted, together with the retention of a septic tank and percolation area constructed in a revised location to that previously permitted, and retention of alterations to the site boundaries, all under Planning Ref. No. 16486. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660545/0 - 6 Aug 2026, Laois County Council 2660538: N/a. Retention. retain a stable building with an associated lean-to storage shed, constructed in a revised layout and form to that previously permitted, together with the retention of a septic tank and percolation area constructed in a revised location to that previously permitted, all under Planning Ref. No. 16486. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660538/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA, site code 004233, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004233 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Peafield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Peafield. ## 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 Peafield, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Peafield. - 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/laois/peafield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/peafield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/peafield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Peafield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clashnamuck: https://everytownland.com/laois/clashnamuck.md - Derryarrow: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryarrow.md - Kildrinagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/kildrinagh.md - Knockbrack: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockbrack.md - Lowran: https://everytownland.com/laois/lowran.md - Mannin: https://everytownland.com/laois/mannin.md - Rush Hall: https://everytownland.com/laois/rush-hall.md - Shangownagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/shangownagh.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/laois/peafield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/peafield