Srah Lower

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Srah Lower, from 43 m² to 145,777 m² (14.58 ha, 36.02 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 Srah Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Srah Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA051-007001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture in an area of mixed grassland and bog, straddling a slight rise. Views good to N and E, but restricted now elsewhere by field fences and trees. Raised circular area (c. 35m NNE−SSW) defined by a scarp topped by a ruined drystone wall. In parts the wall rises 0.5m above interior ground level, but for most of the circuit it has collapsed into a dense band of loose stone tumble. In parts at SE−S and at SW−W the scarp is faced with drystone walling (H 1.8m at S). There is a low eroded gap (W c. 1m) at SE, but it is unclear if this is an original entrance. The level interior is strewn with loose stones. It contains a souterrain (MA051-007003-), marked as ‘Cave’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The interior was used as a burial ground (MA051-007002-); a number of small upright slabs mark or outline graves. The perimeter is thickly ringed with blackthorn, hawthorn and elder trees; elder and thorn bushes also encroaching on interior, which impeded inspection. A slumped heap of stone –probably field clearance – is piled against the scarp at S. An old trackway (Wth 1m) flanked by field fences clips the NE edge of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2020

• MA051-007002 Burial ground
  Description

  In a rath (MA051-007001-). Indicated as ‘Burial ground’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. The level interior of the rath is strewn with loose stones throughout. Amidst the stone spread, several small upright slabs mark or outline graves, all largely obscured by overgrowth. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2020

• MA051-007003 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA051-007001-). This souterrain is indicated as ‘Cave’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not indicated on the 1919 edition. It may be in the S half of the rath interior where a large slab, possibly a lintel, is visible in a small void, in an area now disturbed by a badger sett. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Srah Lower · An tSraith Íochtarach

Area

1,268,037 m² (126.8 ha, 313.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Doocastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doocastle electoral division: 383 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloonagh North, Roosky, Srah Upper, Tonnagh

Placenames

Srah Lower 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.