# Sragh, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballon, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow; in Irish An Srath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 931,980 m² (93.2 ha, 230.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 42,081 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballon, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/ballon.md - Barony: Forth - Electoral division: Shangarry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 568 people lived in 187 households in the Shangarry electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3493 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10522 - Centre: latitude 52.726272, longitude -6.749203 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sragh, from 1,063 m² to 212,736 m² (21.27 ha, 52.57 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 800766: 212,736 m² (21.27 ha, 52.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/800766.md - Parcel 784670: 204,309 m² (20.43 ha, 50.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/784670.md - Parcel 3236313: 169,401 m² (16.94 ha, 41.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3236313.md - Parcel 800872: 126,635 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/800872.md - Parcel 2346488: 124,352 m² (12.44 ha, 30.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2346488.md - Parcel 800622: 80,715 m² (8.07 ha, 19.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/800622.md - Parcel 789568: 3,446 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/789568.md - Parcel 802704: 3,242 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/802704.md - Parcel 811298: 2,970 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/811298.md - Parcel 2532357: 1,906 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2532357.md - Parcel 789567: 1,455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/789567.md - Parcel 789566: 1,063 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/789566.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Sragh 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 16 Dec 2024, Carlow County Council 2460410: Conditional. Permission. • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor • the strengthening of foundations at 7no. locations • shear block remedial works at 77no. locations • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 34no. locations • the replacement of 5.1km of earthwire • the painting of all structures • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures • all associated works within the existing Kellis 220kV substation to accommodate the uprated 220kV OHL including uprating of the Great Island bay in Kellis 220kV substation • the installation of a temporary link between the Great Island – Kellis and Dunstown = Kellis 220kV OHLs to create a temporary circuit, which will include the erection of a temporary four-pole timber structure between the existing Angle Mast 191 on the Great Island- Kellis circuit and the existing Angle Mast 157 on the Dunstown – Kellis circuit • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, and • other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., busy national roads, wide rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Please see Site Notice for full development description. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460410/0 - 7 Oct 2024, Carlow County Council 2460319: N/a. Permission. for development consisting of works along the ca. 70.3km Great Island – Kellis 220kV OHL between the existing Great Island 220kV substation in the townland of Great Island in southwest County Wexford and the Kellis 220kV substation located in the townland of Kellistown East, central County Carlow. The OHL has a total of 216no. supporting structures. Within the functional area of Carlow County Council, there is 44.2km of the existing OHL circuit, with 135no. structures. Within the functional area of Wexford County Council there is 26.1km, with 81no. structures. A separate planning application is being lodged with Wexford County Council. The proposed development within Co. Carlow will comprise: • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor; • the strengthening of foundations at 7no. locations; • shear block remedial works at 77no. locations; • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 34no. locations; • the replacement of 5.1km of earthwire; • the painting of all structures; • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures; • all associated works within the existing Kellis 220kV substation to accommodate the uprated 220kV OHL including uprating of the Great Island bay in the Kellis 220kV substation; • the installation of a temporary link between the Great Island – Kellis and Dunstown – Kellis 220kV OHLs to create a temporary circuit, which will include the erection of a temporary four-pole timber structure between the existing Angle Mast 191 on the Great Island – Kellis circuit and the existing Angle Mast 157 on the Dunstown – Kellis circuit; • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and • other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., busy national roads, wide rivers, etc.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460319/0 - 13 Jul 2023, Carlow County Council 23121: Conditional. Retention. 2 no. stables with associated storage areas, external concrete apron & walls to horse / pony loading area & ancillary floodlight pole with associated lighting fixtures and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23121/0 - 1 Sept 2022, Carlow County Council 22286: N/a. Retention. 1) A single storey domestic type shed, comprising of two no. stables with access link and two no. associated storage areas with combined floor area of 269m2. 2). Concrete apron of 291m2, & 2.3mt high concrete walls to external horse/pony loading area. 3). 7.8mt high floodlight pole and associated lighting fixtures, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22286/0 - 11 Nov 2019, Carlow County Council 19446: Refused. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dormer style dwelling, wastewater treatment system, bored well, new entrance and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19446/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CW017-049: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW017-049----. The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Remnant of cairn (present diam. c. 5m), with traces of possible kerb visible S-W. Two large boulders visible at W, may be structural. - CW017-055: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW017-055----. Sub-rectangular shaped cropmark visible on an aerial photographs taken by Michael Moore on the 21 July 1996 (MM (64) 1-3). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 24 January 2012 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sragh. ## 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 Sragh, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sragh. - 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/carlow/sragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/sragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/sragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballylower: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballylower.md - Boggan: https://everytownland.com/carlow/boggan.md - Closh: https://everytownland.com/carlow/closh.md - Craanpursheen: https://everytownland.com/carlow/craanpursheen.md - Kilmurry: https://everytownland.com/carlow/kilmurry.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/carlow/milltown-10395.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/carlow/sragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/sragh