Stramore
Stramore is a townland in the civil parish of Gartan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An Srath Mór.
- Area
- 76 ha
- 188 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 4,733 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stramore, from 52 m² to 160,881 m² (16.09 ha, 39.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Stramore 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
15 Jun 2026Conditional
INSTALLATION OF RIPARIAN ZONE FENCING, NATURAL REGENERATION OF PLANTING AND BROADLEAVED TREES WITHIN THE RIPARIAN ZONE, SOLAR DRINKERS FOR LIVESTOCK AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS REQUIRED FOR ONGOING EROSION CONTROL. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661093
2 Jun 2026N/a
INSTALLATION OF RIPARIAN ZONE FENCING, NATURAL REGENERATION OF PLANTING AND BROADLEAFED TREES WITHIN THE RIPARIAN ZONE, SOLAR DRINKERS FOR LIVESTOCK AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS REQUIRED FOR ONGOING EROSION CONTROL
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661012
20 Aug 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561441
9 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF 6M HIGH BALL STOP FENCING TO FRONT AND SIDE BOUNDARY WALLS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150423
27 Mar 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING RESOURCE ROOM TO A PRE-SCHOOL CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH AN EXTERNAL PLAY AREA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950417
14 Nov 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DETACHED BUILDING FOR USE AS A PRE-SCHOOL CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH AN EXTERNAL PLAY AREA, A CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851740
26 Oct 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A DETACHED BUILDING FOR USE AS A PRE-SCHOOL CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH AN EXTERNAL PLAY AREA, A CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851664
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
- Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
- DG051-001 Megalithic structure
Description
Depicted on the current edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map in gothic script as 'Carrickatinyan'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stramore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Stramore, 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 Stramore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stramore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Stramore · An Srath Mór
- Area
- 759,876 m² (75.99 ha, 187.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Church Hill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 400 people lived in 141 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attinadague, Carrickatimpan, Drumnawooa, Drumsallagh, Glendowanbeg, Inniskil, Sruhangarrow
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Stramore 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.