# Strabrinna Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Srath Bruithne Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 858,752 m² (85.88 ha, 212.2 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,084 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcar, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilcar.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Largymore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14898 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52423 - Centre: latitude 54.644865, longitude -8.553594 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Strabrinna Upper, from 150 m² to 612,967 m² (61.3 ha, 151.47 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1367251: 612,967 m² (61.3 ha, 151.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367251.md - Parcel 1379169: 192,405 m² (19.24 ha, 47.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379169.md - Parcel 1402457: 20,950 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402457.md - Parcel 1321263: 7,149 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321263.md - Parcel 1428802: 3,520 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428802.md - Parcel 1412544: 3,199 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412544.md - Parcel 1379166: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379166.md - Parcel 1366796: 1,741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366796.md - Parcel 1305171: 1,696 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305171.md - Parcel 1378362: 1,693 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378362.md - Parcel 1384879: 1,175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384879.md - Parcel 1379167: 1,110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379167.md - Parcel 1302260: 1,057 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302260.md - Parcel 1412542: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412542.md - Parcel 1378363: 1,018 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378363.md - Parcel 1302037: 1,003 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302037.md - Parcel 1384893: 761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384893.md - Parcel 1379168: 684 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379168.md - Parcel 1362037: 683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362037.md - Parcel 1405433: 671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405433.md - Parcel 1369761: 654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369761.md - Parcel 1412543: 501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412543.md - Parcel 1403290: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403290.md - Parcel 1384712: 150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384712.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Strabrinna Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Strabrinna Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG091-005: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG091-005----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG097-038----. 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 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 Strabrinna Upper. ## 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 Strabrinna Upper, 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 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 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/donegal/strabrinna-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/strabrinna-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/strabrinna-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymoon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymoon.md - Bavan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bavan.md - Crownasillagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crownasillagh.md - Strabrinna Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/strabrinna-lower.md - Umuskan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/umuskan.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/donegal/strabrinna-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/strabrinna-upper