# Stranakirk, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Srath na Circe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,251,980 m² (125.2 ha, 309.37 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 146,014 m² (14.6 ha, 36.08 acres) - 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: Crowkeeragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14586 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52447 - Centre: latitude 54.694264, longitude -8.603844 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stranakirk, from 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 320,141 m² (32.01 ha, 79.11 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1300670: 320,141 m² (32.01 ha, 79.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300670.md - Parcel 1361986: 269,589 m² (26.96 ha, 66.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361986.md - Parcel 1321302: 160,537 m² (16.05 ha, 39.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321302.md - Parcel 1330153: 150,381 m² (15.04 ha, 37.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330153.md - Parcel 1402452: 146,014 m² (14.6 ha, 36.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402452.md - Parcel 1309714: 136,251 m² (13.63 ha, 33.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309714.md - Parcel 1305326: 61,266 m² (6.13 ha, 15.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305326.md - Parcel 1315048: 5,293 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315048.md - Parcel 4668315: 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668315.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Stranakirk 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 Stranakirk in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coguish Bog, site code 001938 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG090-002: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG090-002----. Known locally as 'Cearc's Grave'. The site consists of a slightly irregular-shaped earthen mound. The mound is 44m SSW-NNE and 30m WNW-ESE at the base and 22m SSW-NNE and 19m WNW-ESE at the top. It is up to 4.75m in height. There is a hollow on the top of the mound said to have contained two stone slabs. The site is located on the valley floor of the Glen river in marshy pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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 Stranakirk. ## 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 Stranakirk, about 1 in 20 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 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 Stranakirk. - 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/stranakirk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stranakirk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stranakirk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Stranakirk 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) - Crowanrudda Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crowanrudda-beg.md - Croweighter: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croweighter.md - Meenaneary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenaneary.md - Straleel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/straleel.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/stranakirk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/stranakirk