Strade Explained

Straide
Native Name:Irish: An tSráid
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Connacht
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:County Mayo
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2006
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:570
Population Density Km2:auto
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:53.921°N -9.131°W
Elevation M:20
Blank Name:Irish Grid Reference

Straide, or Strade,[2] is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. It is located on the N58 national secondary road between Foxford and Castlebar. The name Strade is an anglicisation of the Irish words an tsráid, meaning the street.

Straide Abbey has a number of carved reliefs on its ruined walls.

George Moore (1727–1799), who founded the Moore Hall estate at Lough Carra, came from Ashbrook House near Strade.

A museum in the village records the story of Michael Davitt who was born in Strade, and how he and Charles Stewart Parnell formed the Land League at the end of the nineteenth century to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land on which they worked.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area . Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports . . April 2007 . 2011-11-07.
  2. Web site: An tSráid / Strade. Government of Ireland. 7 November 2011.
  3. Web site: Michael Davitt Museum. Museums & Archive. The Heritage Council. 7 November 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100824173337/http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/museums-archive/heritage-council-initiatives/museums-and-standards-programme/mspi-participants/michael-davitt-museum/. 24 August 2010. dmy-all.