Stramatt

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stramatt, from 135 m² to 77,366 m² (7.74 ha, 19.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Stramatt 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance & driveway, effluent treatment system & percolation and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560680

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance & driveway, effluent treatment system & percolation and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560681

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance & driveway, effluent treatment system & percolation and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560550

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance & driveway, effluent treatment system & percolation and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560551

• 26 Mar 2025N/a

  for (a) construction of a two-storey extension to the existing office building, (b) alterations and extension to existing staff car park area, (c) erect totem signage at site entrance and all associated site works. This planning application was previously granted under planning application reference number 17312

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560131

• 26 Jul 2022Conditional

  to erect fully serviced bungalow type dwelling with detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment unit, entrance, wall and piers and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22301

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  for a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22227

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  erect fully serviced dormer type dwelling with detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment unit, entrance, walls and piers and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21730

• 17 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a solar PV energy development, comprising of the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on ground mounted frames/support structures within existing field boundaries (3964 m2 of PV panels covering 3858 m2 of ground, and 2.5 metres high); underground cabling and ducting (including cable link to main A.W. Ennis plant); 1.5m high stock proof security fencing to site perimeter; erect a 6.5m2 services building, together with all associated site development works. The site currently has an EPA licence Reg. No. P1019-01. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2049

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct a 262.8m2 industrial storage building to be used in conjunction with existing animal feed mill, together with all associated site works on behalf of A.W. Ennis Ltd. The above development is being carried out to assist, facilitate and sustain the existing A.W. Ennis mill production operations. The site currently has an EPA Licence Reg. No. P1019-01

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19290

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  to retain change of dwelling design from that originally granted under planning ref. no. 8011686

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1824

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ramor 000008

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stramatt.

Architectural heritage

• St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built 1858, with seven-bay nave elevations, truncated three-stage tower to gabled west end, gabled entrance porches to north and south of chancel end, spire removed c.1970. Pitched slate roof altered c.1970 to overhang at eaves and barge extending over truncated tower with timber fascia, bargeboard and soffit. Celtic cross finials to gables, cast-iron rainwater goods. Altered bell-cast slate roof to porches with stone cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with stone eaves course, smooth rendered block-and-start quoins and stepped ashlar plinth. Smooth rendered wall buttresses corresponding to internal chancel arch on sides of nave, projecting confessional with flat roof to centre. Pointed arch windows with dressed stone surrounds to western four bays of nave, tripartite pointed arch windows sanctuary bay and smaller single pointed arch window to sacristy in east bay. Pointed arch door opening to sacristy on south elevation and square-headed opening to sixth bay, both with replacement timber doors. Quatrefoil roundel to apex of east gable over graduated tripartite lancet east window with stone-dressed surrounds and mullions. Elaborate stained glass to apse and nave. Stone string course to second stage of tower over dedication plaque to second stage of tower with inscription ‘Uni Trinoque Deo / Sub Inv’ S. Matthaei Ap. / Jacobo Browne Episcopo / Joanne O’Reilly Pastore / Anno Domini 1858’. Pointed arch opening below with stone tracery tracery having trefoil roundel over twin over ogee-headed lancets. Weathered stone ledge over first stage of tower having single pointed arch, similar windows flank tower in gable at half-landing level, all in splaayed dressed stone surrounds. Pointed arch windows to sides of porches and door opening with recent timber doors. Hammerbeam queen-post trussed structure to interior with pointed arch opening to inner sanctuary on colonettes with foliated capitals, pointed arch niches to side altars. Timber balconied gallery to west end and niche to ground floor. Pair of confessionals of c.1970 to nave. Glazed timber doors to porch lobbies with coloured glass panes and overlight. Side doors to sanctuary area with label mouldings and timber sheeted doors. Steps to altar area with Gothic-Revival altar and reredos. Replacement timber pews. Recent detached single-storey structure to south. Freestanding ashlar stepped-and-gabled piers with metal gates at road entrance.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Stramatt.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Stramatt, Virginia7 sales

Name

Stramatt

Area

516,410 m² (51.64 ha, 127.61 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrakeelty Beg, Carrakeelty More, Lisduff, Ryefield

Placenames

Stramatt 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.