Straths

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straths, from 418 m² to 286,138 m² (28.61 ha, 70.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Straths 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.

• 25 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS AND (2) ANNEX APARTMENT, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562061

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED, WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560364

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 03/4727 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351356

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152225

• 4 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA; ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750518

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Special Protection Area: Trawbreaga Bay SPA 004034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG004-085 Rock art
  Description

  Earth-fast elongated rock outcrop (L 5m N-S x 1.4m E-W) decorated with cup (diam. 0.08m) and ring motifs (diam. 0.22m) located on grassland c. 30m from the S shoreline of Trawbreaga Bay. Image with file numbers DG004-085----_06.jpg and DG004-085----_07.jpg has been uploaded courtesy of Bauke Roof who took the original photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 22 October 2015

• DG011-002 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.07m high × 1.83m wide at base; N-S. Situated on pasture land sloping slightly down to N. 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

• DG011-006 Stone row
  Description

  Colhoun (1949, 115) referred to a 'wrecked megalith near Ballyliffin', which she positioned in Straths townland on page 116 of the same work. Following her, Killanin and Duignan (1962; 1967) also recorded it. A fuller account (Colhoun 1995) identified the site as that in the heading. There is a standing stone here (Lacy 1983), beside which, in 1946, Colhoun noted some partly buried or prostrate slabs that she thought may represent the remains of a collapsed 'Giant's Grave'. There are some large stones scattered around at this location, which is rough and overgrown, but there is no reliable indication that they formed part of a megalithic tomb. Colhoun 1949, 115-16; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 127; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 140; Lacy 1983, 88, no. 487; SMR 1987, 11:6; Colhoun 1995, 39-40; RMP 1995, 11:6. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front, modern single-cell lean-to extension to rear, single-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding adjoining to south, and two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks; corrugated-cement roof to north outbuilding. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six horned timber sash windows to front with painted stone sills, and small timber casement windows to rear. Square-headed door openings with battened timber doors.

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 Straths, about 1 in 10 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 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 Straths.

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

Name

Straths

Area

1,537,935 m² (153.79 ha, 380.03 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmany, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ballyliffin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,529 people lived in 493 households in the Ballyliffin electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carndoagh, Rashenny

Placenames

Straths 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.