Srah

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Srah, from 1,833 m² to 422,632 m² (42.26 ha, 104.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Srah 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.

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  construct Livestock Underpass with underground effluent tank with access roadways and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560272

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  sub-divide existing dwelling house and construct a two storey extension to the side to make a semi-detached dwelling house using existing driveway, also install a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21449

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct a domestic storage shed and all associated ancillary site works and retain a rear extension (totaling 63sq.m) to domestic dwelling including velux windows to roof and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2148

• 31 Jan 2018Conditional

  increase width of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1838

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Srah.

Recorded monuments

• LA034-010001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on an E-W ridge. A subcircular area (diam. c. 35m SSW-NNE) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 2.8m) except at NE. Evidence of fosse at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-010002 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 37-8). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Marked on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m). It is defined by a low bank (ext. H c. 0.8m). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. A circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 3m, int. H c. 1.1m). No evidence of fosse or original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA034-013 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Marked as an enclosure on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map but there are no surface remains of an enclosure now. The area has been quarried. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Srah, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Srah.

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 Srah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Srah · An tSraith

Area

2,151,152 m² (215.12 ha, 531.56 acres)

Civil parish

Erke, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Rathdowney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,317 people lived in 524 households in the Rathdowney electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Graigueagarran, Graigueanossy, Graigueard, Knockfin, Levally, Rapla, Srahleagh, Turfarney

Placenames

Srah 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.