Peake

 

Peake Name Stone, 1996

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Peake 6" OS 1840's Map

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Description

Peake also know Peak. There are very nice stone walls dividing the fields here.

Name(s): Peake or Peak townlands.ie/peake

Gaeilge: Péic logainm.ie/peake

Meaning(s): High Point

Description: Land is arable and suitable for grazing and tillage.

Situated: Peake is situated on the left as you go to Tuam after passing Loughgeorge.

Sub-dominations: None

Boundaries-townland(s): Claregalway, Gortadooey, Knockdoemore, Lecarrowmore, Loughgeorge, Mullaghruttery and Rooaunmore (Claregalway) Caraun and Knockdoebeg (Lackagh)

Civil & Church of Ireland Parish: Claregalway – Claregalway Civil Parish (John Grenham)

Barony: Clare – Connacht Baronies

District Electoral Division (DED): Claregalway – Map of Ireland

Poor Law Union (PLU): Galway (Poor Law Valuation) – Poor Law Unions (1851) 

County: Galway – galway.ie

Diocese: The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora – Galway Rural  

Province: Connacht(Connaught)

The Down Survey Map

(1650’s)

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O’Donovan’s field names book 1838 

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Families

: (Pre 1911)  

Browne, Carthy, Forde and Griffin

Landlord(s)

William Burke

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Records

(Claregalway Parish)

Tithe Applotments (c1827)

The names of occupiers and the size of their agricultural holdings, over one acre only, in each townland. To determine the amount that they should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland. (titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie)

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Roman Catholic Parish Registers

• Baptism (Claregalway 1849-1881):  The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish baptismal registry. (registers.nli.ie)
• Marriage (Claregalway 1849-1883): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish matrimonial registry. (registers.nli.ie)
• Burial (Claregalway 1849-1876): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish burial registry. (registers.nli.ie)

Griffith Valuation’s

Primary Valuation of Ireland

A survey involving a detailed valuation of every taxable holding of agricultural or built property on the island of Ireland. Completed between 1864-1865 . Date of Publication for Claregalway was 1855. (askaboutireland.ie)

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General Registry of Office (GRO) Records

• Civil Registery Birth: (1864-1915) The official State records of births in Ireland. (irishgenealogy.ie)
• Civil Registery Marriage: (1864-1940) The official State records of marriage in Ireland (irishgenealogy.ie)
• Civil Registery Death: (1864-1960) The official State records of death in Ireland (irishgenealogy.ie)

Census of Ireland (1821- 1911)

• 1821 vs 1831 (General Parish Population Only)
• 1831 (Summary of Returns for Claregalway Parish Only)
• 1841 (Summary of Returns for Parish Only)
• 1851 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
• 1861 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
• 1871 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
• 1881 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
• 1891 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
• 1901 (Peake)
• 1911 (Peake)

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Research

Index and Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929

by Registry of Deeds, Dublin

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Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI)

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is a unit of the National Monuments Service.

No Entries for Peake

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