Straleel North

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straleel North, from 41 m² to 2,575,804 m² (257.58 ha, 636.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 North 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.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INCREASED RIDGE HEIGHT AND ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560816

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: Lough Unna/Lough Unshagh Bogs 000167

Recorded monuments

• DG090-001 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  This monument stands on rough bogland amid outcrops of rock on a level patch of ground just above the head of the valley of the Sruhanstraleel River. The site commands an extensive outlook south-eastward toward the sea at Teelin Bay. The monument is quite ruined. It consists of a small E-facing chamber c. 2m long and 0.6m to c. 0.8m wide. A grass-grown mound encircling the structure measures 9.5m N-S by 9m E-W by 0.3m high. Its outline is difficult to trace at the E, where it merges with rock outcrop. Three orthostats of the chamber remain. Two of these, a portal-stone to the E and a sidestone beside it, form the N side of the chamber. The portal-stone has split into two separate uprights, and it is likely that a piece has been broken from its top. The sidestone leans inward. The third orthostat, opposite the sidestone, forms the S side of the chamber. A subsidiary roofstone rests on the two sidestones. The main roofstone, a large slab, is displaced and lies tilted over the front of the chamber, its front end on the ground and its inner end supported on the subsidiary roofstone and the portal-stone. The portal stone is 0.8m long, was 0.4m thick when intact, and is 1m high at its inner face. The sidestone beside it leans inward. It is 0.9m long and 0.2m thick and would stand at least 0.6m high if upright. The southern sidestone is 0.9m high. The subsidiary roofstone, now in a sloping position because of the inward lean of the northern sidestone, measures 1.4m by 1.35m and is 0.3m thick. The main roofstone measures 2.5m in overall length, narrows from 2.1m wide near its W end to 1.3m near the E end, and is 0.3m thick. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited this monument in 1847, and it appears from his account that it was then in its present state. Fagan 1845-8, book 20, 30-31; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 290 ('Straleela' may refer); Ó Nualláin 1968a, 299, no. 3; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 35, no. 72; Ó Nualláin 1983b, 95, Donegal no. 23; SMR 1987, 90:1; Ó Nualláin 1989, 124; RMP 1995, 90:1. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Straleel North.

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 North, about 1 in 20 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 North.

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

Name

Straleel North · Srath Laoill Thuaidh

Area

3,520,444 m² (352.04 ha, 869.92 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

West Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altclogh, Braade Lower, Braade Upper, Meenaneary, Straleel, Straleel South

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Straleel North 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.