Letteragh

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letteragh, from 249 m² to 1,584,563 m² (158.46 ha, 391.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Letteragh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for proposed development which will consist of the relocation of 2 no. previously permitted wind turbines at Boolynagleragh Wind Farm ( Clare County Council , Pl. Ref. 09-479, An Bord Pleanála PL.03.236376). Turbine No. 3 will be moved approximately 59 metres to the south west and Turbine No. 4 approximately 26 metres to the north east of the original turbine locations. The proposed development also incorporates all associated infrastructure and site works required to service and access the new turbine locations and includes reinstatement of excavations that have taken place at the original turbine locations

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18830

• 10 Jan 2018Refused

  for retention of the existing 42m high telecommunications support structure carrying transmission equipment and ground based equipment, all enclosed in security fencing together with access track

  Permission · Clare County Council, 187

• 15 Aug 2017Conditional

  to install a 40m free standing multi-user structure, carrying telecommunications equipment together with associated exchange containers enclosed with palisade fencing and access gate. RETENTION permission is also sought for the existing exchange containers and 80m access track. The proposed tower is a replacement for the existing structure, which will be decommissioned and removed from site. The in-situ telecommunications equipment to be transferred post construction. The development will continue to accommodate Local Broadband FM Radio, Security and Council Services and provision has also been made for future co-location as required

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17631

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  for the upgrading of an existing agricultural entrance to a forest bell mouth entrance onto a public road including all other associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1752

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Acrow Bogs NHA 002421

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letteragh.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Letteragh.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Letteragh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letteragh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Letteragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Letteragh · Leitreach

Area

8,377,561 m² (837.76 ha, 2,070.14 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmaley, and its townlands

Barony

Islands

Electoral division

Furroor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

288 people lived in 102 households in the Furroor electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Booltiagh, Boolybrien, Boolynagleragh, Boolynaknockaun, Boolyneaska, Dehomad, Furroor, Lisroe, Rathcrony, Sheeaun

Placenames

Letteragh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.