placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Stroove
An tSrúibh
Keepers’ dwellings and a thatched house preserve domestic building alongside the better-known coastal lights.
Recorded locationStroove55.23770° N · 6.93599° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An tSrúibh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Stroove · English · main form
- Shrove · English · main form
Place & story
The first keepers’ houses
Two keepers’ houses at the lighthouse station are dated to around 1835 and attributed to George Halpin by the architectural inventory. Each has a single main storey with attic accommodation and lean-to additions at the gables. One retains painted slate cladding and associated stores; a rubble-stone water tank stands beside it. These buildings supplied living and working space within the station. [2] [5]
A later dwelling
A further keeper’s house dates to around 1870. Its main floor stands over a basement, and a gabled porch projects from the entrance side. Granite copings finish the slate roofs, while brick courses and stone window sills add contrasting details. The inventory records it as a distinct later component of the lighthouse group. [3]
Thatch beyond the station
Elsewhere in Stroove, the inventory records a four-bay, single-storey thatched house dating to around 1850, with a two-storey outbuilding nearby. The settlement appears on the first Ordnance Survey map of around 1837, but the survey dates this particular house later. Its survival records a domestic building tradition separate from the lighthouse’s engineered complex. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Civil parish
- Moville Lower
- Within
- Greencastle
- Coordinates
- 55.23770, -6.93599
- Mapped area
- 4.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 15234 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
172People recorded
39Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Gillespie 27
- Doherty 12
- McLoughlin 12
- McLaughlin 11
- MacCann 9
1926 census
156People recorded
34Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- McLaughlin 32
- Gillespie 21
- Peoples 10
- Hegarty 9
- Grumlish 6
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stroove. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stroove lighthouse keeper’s house and stores, NIAH 40901304 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Stroove later lighthouse keeper’s house, NIAH 40901305 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Stroove thatched house, NIAH 40901306 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Stroove southwestern keeper’s house, NIAH 40901303 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-02-07. How this page was prepared.