Straleel

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straleel, from 370 m² to 625,479 m² (62.55 ha, 154.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Straleel 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.

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151984

• 8 May 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950667

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO BOTH GABLES ENDS AND TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING OF LIVING ACCOMMODATION ONLY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950223

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coguish Bog 001938

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Straleel.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1830 and modified c. 1970, having modern single-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear (north). Now out of use. Pitched rope-and-stone peg reed thatch under plastic sheeting. Stone pegs below eaves level and to gable ends (east and west); copper plumbing piping used in place of stone pegs to front elevation (south). Rendered chimneystacks to west gable end and to the east side of centre having terracotta pots over. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings, enlarged c. 1970, having replacement timber casement windows, rendered reveals and replacement sills. Square-headed doorway, offset to the west side of centre, having replacement glazed timber door and with smooth render reveals. Number of window openings now blocked. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of An Charraig/Carrick and adjacent to the east bank of the Glen River. Laneway to house from road to the east. House aligned along approach laneway. Single-bay two-storey outbuilding adjacent to the west having pitched natural slate roof with raised render verges to gable ends, rubble stone walls with roughly squared quoins to the corners, and square-headed doorways with replacement fittings. Modern single-storey outbuilding to south of site having mono-pitched corrugated metal roof, pebbledashed walls, and square-headed door openings.

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 Straleel, 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 Straleel.

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

Name

Straleel · Srath Laoill

Area

3,434,691 m² (343.47 ha, 848.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Crowkeeragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

123 people lived in 47 households in the Crowkeeragh electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bogagh Glebe, Carrick Upper, Crowanrudda Beg, Meenaneary, Shannagh, Straleel Glebe, Straleel North, Straleel South, Stranakirk

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Straleel 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.