Straide (), or Strade,
is a village in
County Mayo
County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn ...
,
Ireland. It is located on the
N58 national secondary road between
Foxford and
Castlebar. The name Strade is an
anglicisation
Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influen ...
of the
Irish words ''an tsráid'', meaning ''the street''.
Straide Abbey has some interesting carved reliefs on its ruined walls.
George Moore (1727-1799), who founded the famous
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.
See also
*
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
Towns and villages in County Mayo
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