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]