Stranacarry
Stranacarry is a townland in the civil parish of Castletown, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Srath na Coradh.
- Area
- 28.5 ha
- 71 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 3,708 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- O1
- Strategic Reserve
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stranacarry, from 1,151 m² to 134,925 m² (13.49 ha, 33.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Nov 2022Refused
Retention permission for an attic conversion, alterations to the front, sides and rear façades of the dwelling house inclusive of all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22882
24 May 2018Conditional
The development consists of Attic conversion of existing dwelling house to habitable accomodation, elevational changes and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18399
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stranacarry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stranacarry.
Architectural heritage
- Mill Cottage, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1860, now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, red brick corbelled eaves course, cast-iron gutters. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling, tooled rubble plinth, red brick quoins. Square-headed window openings, red brick block-and-start surrounds, dressed granite sills, painted timber casement windows . Square-headed door opening, red brick block-and-start surround, painted timber and glass panelled door. Attached random rubble stone boundary wall to north-east and north-west, vehicular gateway to north-west, segmental-headed carriage arch opening, tooled limestone ashlar lugged and shouldered, profiled metal sheeted gate, square-headed pedestrian entrance to immediate north-west, tooled limestone surround, painted timber vertically sheeted door. Road fronting north gable end, mature farmland surrounding to east, south and west.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Stranacarry, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2990 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stranacarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Stranacarry · Srath na Coradh
- Area
- 285,345 m² (28.53 ha, 70.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balregan, Balriggan, Castletown, Sportsmans Hall
- Placenames
- Stranacarry 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.