Srah
Townland in the civil parish of Killinvoy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon; in Irish An tSraith
- Area
- 35.5 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 3,053 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Srah, from 244 m² to 86,376 m² (8.64 ha, 21.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission for the following: 1. To demolish existing front porch, house extension and garage, 2. To refurbish existing house to include alterations to elevations, 3. To construct new rear extension, and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660042
26 Nov 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for rear roof and dormer, confirm waste water connection to Irish Water network and Permission to construct detached garage and single storey extension and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560558
8 May 2025N/a
Permission to construct detached garage and single storey extension and all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560212
27 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559
23 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for change of house design from single storey dwellings to two storey dwellings on sites 15 & 20, associated site development works & services, previously granted planning permission for single storey dwellings under PD/24/26 at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24139
28 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission to complete phase 3 within existing development to include 8 no semi detached two storey dwellings on sites 7-14, 2 no single storey detached bungalows on sites 15 and 20, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 10 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2426
31 Jan 2024N/a
Permission to complete phase 3 within existing development to include 8 no semi detached two storey dwellings on sites 7-14, 2 no single storey detached bungalows on sites 15 and 20, associated site development works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2411
25 Feb 2022N/a
Permission to construct 8 no. semi-detached two storey dwellings on sites 7 - 14 and 1 no single storey dwelling on site 15 previously granted plannng permission under P&D Ref 10/46, associated site development works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22110
10 Feb 2022N/a
Permission to construct 8 no semi-detached two storey dwellings on sites 7-14 and 2 no single storey dwellings on sites 15 and 20, previously granted planning permission under PD Ref 10/46, associated site development works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2268
20 Nov 2020Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, and to connect to existing main sewer along with all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20490
23 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and to connect to existing main sewer along with all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20287
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 Srah.
Recorded monuments
- RO042-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 50m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and some bushes (at W: Wth 7.2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.75m) with slight traces of a fosse S-W-N, but the monument is truncated by a NW-SE roadway at NE and the perimeter is removed by quarrying E-S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Srah.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Srah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Srah · An tSraith
- Area
- 355,299 m² (35.53 ha, 87.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killinvoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Mote, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mote electoral division: 1,009 people in 345 households; 89% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolaphubble, Creggan, Knockcroghery, Lisnahoon, Meehaun
- 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.