Stragar
Townland in the civil parish of Upper Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Srath Ghairr
- Area
- 367.1 ha
- 907 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 18,224 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stragar, from 199 m² to 226,973 m² (22.7 ha, 56.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Stragar 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Nov 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC CAR GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562104
9 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560949
23 Nov 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING COTTAGE (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251889
3 Nov 2022N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING COTTAGE AND THE ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATEMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251802
24 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950598
11 Mar 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION 16/51843 AND FOR THE MINOR RELOCATION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950319
6 Feb 2018Unconditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850130
20 Jun 2017Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN (2) CHANGE OF DESIGN & RELOCATION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 16/51842 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750957
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stragar.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stragar.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched bridge carrying small country road over tributary of the Meengilcarry River, built c. 1860, having dressed ashlar V-profile cutwater to central pier. Segmental-headed arches having dressed stone voussoirs; random rubble construction to arch barrels. Uncoursed rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments, rubble stone construction to parapets with random rubble coping over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Heavy modern cement pointing in places. Located in the rural landscape to the north/north-east of Killybegs.
- Meentullynagarn Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Meengilcarry River, built c. 1820, having dressed ashlar V-profile cutwater to central pier. Segmental-headed arches having dressed stone voussoirs; cement rendered finish to arch barrels. Uncoursed rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments, rubble stone construction to parapets with random rubble coping over. Parapet to the north-east damaged to the south-east corner. Tarmacadam deck. Located in the rural landscape to the north/north-east of Killybegs.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Stragar.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stragar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Stragar · Srath Ghairr
- Area
- 3,671,296 m² (367.13 ha, 907.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Tieveskeelta, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tieveskeelta electoral division: 134 people in 49 households; 84% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghayeevoge, Bungosteen, Carrickataggart, Curraghafeaghan, Drumaghy, Meenapeaky, Meengilcarry, Meentullynagarn, Multins
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Stragar 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.