Sragarrow

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sragarrow, from 949 m² to 39,614 m² (3.96 ha, 9.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Sragarrow 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.

• 18 Jan 2024Conditional

  proposed construction af a single storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460016

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  to retain and complete site entrance, retain extension to rear of existing dwelling, and retain existing natural stone finish to dwelling. Permission is sought for the revision of the north-west site boundary, and the construction of a domestic garage and all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2329

• 30 Nov 2022Conditional

  the refurbishment of an existing dwelling house and construction of a new one and half storey extension (3 bed) in contemporary traditional vernacular style, installation of a new onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22273

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, on-site suitable wastewater treatment system with percolation area, all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19283

• 8 Nov 2017Conditional

  proposed construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house with attached sun lounge, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable on-site wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17285

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 Sragarrow.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sragarrow.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with projecting single-bay flat-roofed windbreak porch to the main elevation (southeast), with having abutting two-bay out building attached to northeast and abutting outbuilding attached to the southwest. Now out of use. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, cast-iron rainwater goods and having a rendered chimneystack, offset to the east side of the entrance porch. Roughcast lime rendered finish over rubble stone/field stone construction. Ruled-and-lined cement rendered finish to windbreak porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having concrete sills. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch having timber battened door and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the northeast of Newtown-Forbes. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to site.

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 Sragarrow, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Sragarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Sragarrow · An tSraith Gharbh

Area

210,770 m² (21.08 ha, 52.08 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmoyragh, Lismoy, Prucklish, St. Anne's Glebe

Placenames

Sragarrow 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.