Peafield

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Peafield, from 6 m² to 142,237 m² (14.22 ha, 35.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Sept 2024Conditional

  the conversion and extension of garage into bedroom, home office, gym, in which extension will be amalgamated with the house. New front entrance porch with additional single storey extension, an outdoor chimney stack to be constructed at rear of house, the upgrade of the waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24368

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Peafield.

Recorded monuments

• LI005-054 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope, in low-lying pasture, c. 0.4km to NE of the M7 interchange at Ballysimon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Celie O'Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Co. Co., as a small, dark circular-shaped feature visible on OSi aerial photography (Ref. OS 3/9160) taken 1985. Examination of these OSi aerial images was undertaken prior to the construction of the Limerick South Ring Road in the mid 1990s. Visible as a possible circular shaped pond on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 26/05/2004. No surface remains visible of this feature today on Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019. The aerial photographic evidence suggests that this was a natural pond type feature rather than an archaeological monument. See attached photocopy of OSi aerial photograph taken 1985 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

• LI005-083 Flat cemetery
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope, in low-lying pasture, c. 90m to NE of the Groody River and c. 175m to SE of the M7 interchange at Ballysimon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified in 2001 as a series of pits discovered during topsoil stripping in advance of the Limerick South Ring Road and subsequently excavated (Licence No. 01E0030) (Collins 2001, 4). The features consisted of one large oval-shaped pit (2.1m N-S; 1.6m E-W) which contained occasional charcoal flecks, and eight pits (average diam. 0.4m; D 0.08m-0.2m) concentrated around a flat boulder, each of which contained charcoal and cremated bone (ibid, 21). A second large circular-shaped pit (diam. 0.5m; max. D 0.4m) was c. 100m to E and contained large amounts of cremated human bone and charcoal. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 26 June 2020

• LI005-105 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In former pasture under the Limerick Southern Ring Road 20m from the townland boundary with Ballysimon. The excavation of a levelled fulacht fia under licence No. 01E0484, identified during monitoring of topsoil stripping, was undertaken prior to the construction of the Limerick Southern Ring Road in June 2001 (Collins 2001; Collins 2003, 242-3). The site was noted as a spread of burnt material (dims. 10m by 8m) centred on a trough feature. The sub-rectangular trough contained the trace of one timber, 1.43m in length, in a very poor state of preservation. Two modern drains were cut into the fulacht fia mound; both were filled with burnt stone. It appeared that the fulacht fia had been levelled during localised land reclamation (Collins 2003, 242-3). Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 15 July 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Peafield.

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).

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

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1022 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Peafield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Peafield · Gort na Pise

Area

165,736 m² (16.57 ha, 40.95 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmurray, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysimon, Ballysimon (Dickson), Milltown, Newtown

Placenames

Peafield 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.