Peak

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Peak, from 23 m² to 417,433 m² (41.74 ha, 103.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Peak 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.

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  for: a) proposed porch extension to the front of existing dwelling house, b) retain existing toilet block extension to the side of the dwelling house, c) proposed replacement of substandard roof to the rear of the building, and d) the construction of a garage/games/ hobby room and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 59.66 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 6.47 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361342

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 Peak.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Peak.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_619 (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 Peak with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Peak · An Phéic

Area

895,502 m² (89.55 ha, 221.28 acres)

Civil parish

Claregalway, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claregalway, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,388 people lived in 778 households in the Claregalway electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caraun, Claregalway, Gortadooey, Knockdoebeg West, Knockdoemore, Laghtgeorge, Lecarrowmore, Mullaghruttery, Rooaunmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Peak 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.