Sracreeghan

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sracreeghan, from 131 m² to 638,767 m² (63.88 ha, 157.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Sracreeghan 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.

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  retain single storey extension to the rear of dwelling house with all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21221

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: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex SAC 000623
• Natural Heritage Area: Crockauns/Keelogyboy Bogs NHA 002435
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ben Bulben, Gleniff And Glenade Complex 000623

Recorded monuments

• LE006-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a steep N-facing slope in Glencar valley. Grass-covered circular platform with some scrub (diam. 28m E-W; 27m N-S; H 1m at W to 1.9m at SE) surrounded by a well-defined fosse (Wth 3.1m; D 0.6m) E-S-W (upslope). There are lazy beds in the interior but the original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE006-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a N-facing slope in Glencar valley. Grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 23m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m), and traces of a fosse visible as a band of lush growth SE-S. There is a possible causewayed entrance at NNE and the perimeter is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Sracreeghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Sracreeghan · Srath Chríocháin

Area

1,781,731 m² (178.17 ha, 440.28 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glencar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glencar electoral division: 283 people in 101 households; 78% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corglass, Edenbaun (Co. Sligo), Kilsellagh (Co. Sligo), Knocknaclassagh, Largandoon, Lugnafaughery, Meenaphuill, Sranea

Placenames

Sracreeghan 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.