Sraheens
Townland in the civil parish of Easky, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Na Sraithíní
- Area
- 23.2 ha
- 57 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 54,786 m² (5.48 ha, 13.54 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sraheens, from 1,112 m² to 111,883 m² (11.19 ha, 27.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Nov 2024N/a
(1) permission to retain and complete renovations and alterations to premises including partially constructed stairwell and lift core to the east elevation of the building (2) permission for change of use from former hotel premises to public bar, lounge, pool room, store, office and ancillary accommodation at ground floor, 12 no. self-catering apartments at first and second floor (3) permission for alterations and amendments to existing ground floor to include 1 no. self-catering apartment (4) permission to construct a pumping station to connect with the existing public foul sewer and including all other ancillary site works and services
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460435
16 Oct 2024N/a
The development will consist of 1) permission to retain and complete a partially constructed stairwell and lift core to the east elevation of the building 2) permission for alterations and amendments to existing ground floor to include 1 no. self-catering apartment 3) permission to construct a pumping station to connect with the existing public foul sewer and including all other ancillary site works and services.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460364
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 Sraheens.
Recorded monuments
- SL011-124 Midden
Description
Not included in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in level pasture. On inspection in 2003 no remains of this potential monument were visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL011-132 Souterrain
Description
Situated in level pasture. Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Not included in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995). On inspection in 2003 there were no remains of a souterrain visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sraheens.
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 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 Sraheens.
- 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 Sraheens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Sraheens · Na Sraithíní
- Area
- 231,887 m² (23.19 ha, 57.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Easky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Easky East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Easky East electoral division: 626 people in 253 households; 72% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aderavoher, Bunowna, Killeenduff
- Placenames
- Sraheens 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.