Letter-Mountain
Letter-Mountain is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Sliabh Leitreach.
- Area
- 95.2 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 536,505 m² (53.65 ha, 132.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Letter-Mountain, from 536,505 m² (53.65 ha, 132.57 acres) to 536,505 m² (53.65 ha, 132.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Letter-Mountain 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Letter-Mountain in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
- Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letter-Mountain.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Letter-Mountain.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Letter-Mountain, about 1 in 20 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 Letter-Mountain.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Letter-Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Letter-Mountain · Sliabh Leitreach
- Area
- 951,801 m² (95.18 ha, 235.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Sheepshead, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 198 people lived in 82 households in the Sheepshead electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughaleigue Beg, Caher-Mountain, Cahergal, Clash, Glanroon
- Placenames
- Letter-Mountain 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.