# Srah, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Erke, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An tSraith. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,151,152 m² (215.12 ha, 531.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,248 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Erke, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/erke.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Rathdowney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28101 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 101053 - Centre: latitude 52.831282, longitude -7.543096 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Srah, from 1,833 m² to 422,632 m² (42.26 ha, 104.43 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 253889: 422,632 m² (42.26 ha, 104.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253889.md - Parcel 250872: 407,710 m² (40.77 ha, 100.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250872.md - Parcel 255660: 358,335 m² (35.83 ha, 88.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255660.md - Parcel 6118558: 354,770 m² (35.48 ha, 87.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118558.md - Parcel 250337: 301,549 m² (30.15 ha, 74.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250337.md - Parcel 265322: 100,777 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265322.md - Parcel 4947450: 97,523 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4947450.md - Parcel 5297332: 50,392 m² (5.04 ha, 12.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297332.md - Parcel 231232: 20,336 m² (2.03 ha, 5.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/231232.md - Parcel 239698: 5,248 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239698.md - Parcel 240218: 4,623 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240218.md - Parcel 235203: 4,604 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235203.md - Parcel 4602528: 4,288 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4602528.md - Parcel 4588525: 3,900 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4588525.md - Parcel 4588683: 3,781 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4588683.md - Parcel 247657: 3,425 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/247657.md - Parcel 4464283: 2,924 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4464283.md - Parcel 264850: 2,501 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264850.md - Parcel 244593: 1,833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/244593.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 6 May 2025, Laois County Council 2560272: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct Livestock Underpass with underground effluent tank with access roadways and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560272/0 - 18 Jun 2021, Laois County Council 21449: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21449/0 - 3 Feb 2021, Laois County Council 2148: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2148/0 - 31 Jan 2018, Laois County Council 1838: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. increase width of existing entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/1838/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Srah. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA034-010001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA034-010001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA034-010002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA034-011----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA034-012----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA034-013----. 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 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 Srah. ## 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 Srah, about 1 in 5 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 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 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/laois/srah.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/srah.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/srah.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Srah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Graigueagarran: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueagarran.md - Graigueanossy: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueanossy.md - Graigueard: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigueard.md - Knockfin: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockfin.md - Levally: https://everytownland.com/laois/levally.md - Rapla: https://everytownland.com/laois/rapla.md - Srahleagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/srahleagh-101059.md - Turfarney: https://everytownland.com/laois/turfarney.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/laois/srah - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/srah