Strade

Straide An tSráid
Village
Roman Catholic church, Straide
Straide Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53.921°N 9.131°W / 53.921; -9.131
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Mayo
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population  (2006)[1]
• Total	570
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	M255969

Straide (Irish: An tSráid), 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]

Notable people

See also: Category:People from Strade

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

1. "Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area" (PDF). Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
2. "An tSráid / Strade". Government of Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
3. "Michael Davitt Museum". Museums & Archive. The Heritage Council. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2011.