"Quite numerous: Clare-Limerick-Cork etc. Ir. Straoits. An English name analogous to  Street; in Ireland 14 cent, they were prominent in the affairs of Limerick City".      Source: MacLysaght, Edward, More Irish Families, Dublin, 1982

STRAOIT, STRAOITS—XI—Strete, Streate, Streete, Stretys, Streytis, Streache, Streech, Stretch,  Strytch, Stritch; Norman 'de la Strete.' Old. English 'atte Strete' i.e., at the street or paved  (Roman) road, from residence thereby. (The old forms Streache, Stretch, &c., stand for Streets,  monosyllabic surnames of local origin often adding s after the manner of patronymics, as Williams,  Jones, &c.) Stritch was the name of an old and respectable merchant family in Limerick, of which  city Nicholas Stritch was mayor in 1427. Among the twenty exempted from pardon by Ireton when he  took possession of Limerick in 1651, was Alderman Thomas Stritch. There are very few of this old  name now in Limerick