Srah

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Srah, from 946 m² to 232,563 m² (23.26 ha, 57.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660475

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  to complete dwellinghouse including waste water treatment and all associated services which has substantial works complete under planning reference number 01/3640

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561738

• 19 May 2022Refused

  and completion of works under Pl Ref 01/3640. The development shall consist of and completion of the dwelling house including waste water treatment and percolation systems and all associated services which has substantial works completed under Pl Ref 01/3640 and alterations to the previously approved elevations, internal floor arrangements and roof details.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22642

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 253 sqm, (garage) 50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181483

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

• GA114-163 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 37.2m) defined by a drystone wall. A drystone-built rectangular structure (L 2.5m; Wth 2m), which overlies the wall at NW, is the remains of a limekiln. A field wall overlies the enclosing wall at E and another surrounds it at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 April 2018

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_801 (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.

No address of the register names Srah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Srah · An tSraith

Area

796,192 m² (79.62 ha, 196.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

859 people lived in 290 households in the Kiltartan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbaun East, Carrowbaun West, Lissatunny, Reaskgarriff, Skehanagh

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.