placenamesStrahart
Sraith Airt
Strahart’s local record includes a long-serving postmistress, an address used in county heritage work and a botanical site documented in a wildlife survey.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Sraith Airt · Irish · main form · validated name
- Strahart · English · main form
Place & story
Four decades behind the counter
Lil Kavanagh ran Strahart’s post office for 41 years before retiring in 2000. Her family acquired the business from the Willoughby family in 1959. Contemporary local reporting describes her work extending to helping customers complete forms and keeping an eye on older neighbours. A fire in 1999 disrupted the office, which was attached to her home; friends and former residents marked her retirement with a gathering in Ferns. [2]
An address in the county archive
The name Strahart also served a wider rural postal district. Wexford County Council’s December 1936 minutes record Seumas Doyle’s address as Ballyrankin, Strahart, Ferns, when accepting his resignation from the Ancient Monuments Local Advisory Committee. The committee’s recorded business included concern about neglected graveyards and a proposal for local parish committees to assist their care. This places a resident of the district within the county’s early organised heritage work. [3]
A botanical record
N. D. Lockhart’s January 1992 revision of Wexford’s Areas of Scientific Interest maps added a Strahart site to the inventory. The entry identifies botanical interest and records Carduus nutans there. It supplies a specific natural-history record for the locality, although the inventory left the site unrated. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Civil parish
- Ballycarney
- Within
- Strahart
- Coordinates
- 52.61342, -6.59231
- Logainm ID
- 1413898 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Strahart. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lil gives up her post after 41 years service, 28 August 2000 · Enniscorthy Guardian / Irish Independent
- Wexford County Council minutes, December 1936, page 41 · Wexford County Council Archives
- Contract to update maps of Areas of Scientific Interest in Co. Wexford, January 1992, pages 4 and 6 · N. D. Lockhart / Wildlife Service
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-12. How this page was prepared.