# Strade

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**Straide** (), or **Strade**,[1] is a village in [County Mayo](/source/County_Mayo), [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland). It is located on the [N58](/source/N58_road_(Ireland)) [national secondary road](/source/National_secondary_road) between [Foxford](/source/Foxford) and [Castlebar](/source/Castlebar). The name Strade is an [anglicisation](/source/Anglicisation) of the [Irish](/source/Irish_language) 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](/source/Moore_Hall,_County_Mayo) estate at [Lough Carra](/source/Lough_Carra), came from Ashbrook House near Strade.

A museum in the village records the story of [Michael Davitt](/source/Michael_Davitt) who was born in Strade, and how he and [Charles Stewart Parnell](/source/Charles_Stewart_Parnell) formed the [Land League](/source/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.[2]

## Notable people

See also:

## See also

- [List of towns and villages in Ireland](/source/List_of_towns_and_villages_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland)

## References

1. ["An tSráid / Strade"](http://www.logainm.ie/1374069.aspx). Government of Ireland. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

1. ["Michael Davitt Museum"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100824173337/http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/museums-archive/heritage-council-initiatives/museums-and-standards-programme/mspi-participants/michael-davitt-museum/). *Museums & Archive*. The Heritage Council. Archived from [the original](http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/museums-archive/heritage-council-initiatives/museums-and-standards-programme/mspi-participants/michael-davitt-museum/) on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

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