Strabrinna Upper

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Strabrinna Upper, from 150 m² to 612,967 m² (61.3 ha, 151.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Strabrinna Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Strabrinna Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Strabrinna Upper.

Recorded monuments

• DG091-005 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on shoulder of SE-facing slope of rising ground in mountainous region in an area of cut-away bog with good views out to the valley and sea to the SE and higher ground to N and NW. Stone circle (DG096-029) located downslope 1.3km to SSW. Tomb, at least 2.6m long, is aligned NNE-SSW. It stands towards the NNE end of a stone cairn (10.8m NNE-SSW; 8.2m NNW-SSE; max. H 1.0m). The cairn has been partially robbed out presumably when the turf was being cut in this area. There is evidence of interference and rebuilding of part of the cairn on the W side, possibly to create some form of shelter. It is likely that the tomb was revealed in the 18th or 19th century when turf was being cut in this area. The front of the chamber consists of two portal stones flanking a sill-stone. The more westerly portal stone is 1.2m long, 0.25m thick and 1.15m high; the other, only the lower part of which survives, is 0.95m long, 0.65m high and 0.30m thick; the intervening sill-stone is 0.70m long, 0.20m in maximum height and 0.07m thick. The top of the sill-stone slopes down from the more easterly side of the chamber to the other, perhaps due to damage. The top of a packing stone is exposed at the inner face of the sill-stone. Each side of the chamber is formed by a single inward-leaning orthostat, one behind each portal stone. The more easterly is at least 1.50m long, at least 0.10m thick and is 0.60m high at the front whence it slopes to the rear. The more westerly stone is at least 1.40m long, 0.20m thick and 0.60m thick. This too slopes to the SSW or rear of the chamber. The two sidestones support a roofstone (at least 1.85m long, 0.15m thick and at least 1.10m wide). This roofstone covers the inner half of the chamber. A prostrate slab (1.70m by 1.15m by 0.20m thick) immediately NNE of the chamber appears to be a displaced roofstone that would have rested on the portal stones and the in-situ roofstone. The floor of the chamber, which floods in wet weather, is covered in stones displaced from the cairn. There is a definite reduction in the height of the tomb from the front or NNE end to the rear. The front of the in-situ roofstone is 0.60m above floor level at the front but dips almost to floor level at the rear. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

• DG097-038 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on low lying flat pasture in mountain valley on the bend of a fast running stream that runs along the S of the earthwork. Present remains consist of a flat platform (dims. 41.5m NE-SW; 24.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp and wide-flat bottomed fosse (top Wth 7.7m; base Wth 4m; ext. D 1m; int. D 0.45m) which is only visible from W to N and by the river along its S side. There is no evidence of any enclosing element on the E side of this platform although the fosse may have been subesquently filled in along this side of the earthwork. The wide fosse may have acted as a water-filled moat providing a defensive feature along with the river to create a platform protected on its S side by a stream and on its other sides by a water-filled moat that feeds back into the river at W. There is a strong local tradition that there was an O'Boyle castle in this region that was described in the 19th century as 'The high ridge immediately on our left is Croagh Muckross; that on the right beyond the river, is Strabrinna Hill, where, even yet, may be pointed out the ruins of an old castle, occupied by one of the princes of the O'Boyles, chieftains of Boylagh' (McGinley 1867, 57). This castle site has never been located and it has been suggested that this earthwork may possibly be the remains of a defensive bawn or moat around this O'Boyle castle, also one of the surrounding fields is known locally as the 'Soldiers Field' (pers. comm. S. Mc Ginley & S. O'Beirne). There is no evidence of any structure inside the platform or of any ground disturbance to indicate the presence of any masonry remains. McGinley, T. (1867) The Cliff Scenery of South-Western Donegal. Derry Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 15 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Strabrinna Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Strabrinna Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Strabrinna Upper · Srath Bruithne Uachtarach

Area

858,752 m² (85.88 ha, 212.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Largymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 216 households in the Largymore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoon, Bavan, Crownasillagh, Strabrinna Lower, Umuskan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Strabrinna Upper 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.