Stramaquerty

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stramaquerty, from 687 m² to 212,050 m² (21.2 ha, 52.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Stramaquerty 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.

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct (a) a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling and (b) proposed new detached domestic garage, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21250

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  construct 1 no. free range poultry house and 1 no. manure store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tanks(s)) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. Significant further information and revised plans have been sumitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20613

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 Stramaquerty.

Recorded monuments

• CV033-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 33m) enclosed by two low earthen banks with intermediate shallow fosse. Outer bank has been levelled and farm buildings run along the outer edge of the fosse from NE-E-SSE. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV033-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a wide, low earthen bank, stone-faced in part externally, and a fosse which has been infilled from SE-S and recut and incorporated into the field boundary from S-W-N. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Stramaquerty Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch stone bridge, built c.1800, over river flowing south to Lough Ramor. Round arches of equal size having rendered rubble stone soffit with dressed arch ring of unequal voussoirs. Rubble-stone cutwaters with splayed tops to both faces. Random rubble spandrels, parapets and wing walls. Wing walls retaining approach roads reinforced with recent steel ties and plates to faces. Scotch copings to parapets. Recent concrete addition to abutments and cutwaters with splayed cap.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Stramaquerty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Stramaquerty

Area

732,496 m² (73.25 ha, 181 acres)

Civil parish

Killinkere, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burnew, Drumagolan, Kilmore, Lissannymore, Murmod

Placenames

Stramaquerty 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.