Letterbrick

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterbrick, from 113 m² to 326,071 m² (32.61 ha, 80.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Letterbrick 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.

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING, PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/52017 AS A HOLIDAY HOME FOR USE AS A PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL LONG TERM LET PROPERTY WITH NO ALTERATIONS TO THE EXTERNAL APPEARANCE, LAYOUT OR STRUCTURE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/52017 AND ALL SITE SERVICES, ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS, AND BOUNDARIES ARE TO REMAIN AS CURRENTLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/52017

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561892

• 18 May 2024Refused

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF STUDIO ACCOMMODATION WHICH WILL BE ANCILLARY TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/52017, (2) CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/52017 AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460730

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING INCLUDING CHANGES TO ELEVATIONS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2352017

• 21 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FIXED SHEEP HANDLING UNIT WITH DIPPING TANK TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351771

• 19 Jul 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251229

• 7 Jul 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251161

• 8 Feb 2021Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSEWITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150180

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHEDS, 1 NO. UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT SEEPAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051821

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF PLANTING CIRCA 855 TREES (CONSISTING OF EQUAL MIX OF ALDER, WILLOW, SILVER BIRCH & ROWAN) IN A 5M RIPARIAN BUFFER ZONE FROM THE RIVER'S EDGE WITH ERECTION OF 1005 M GALVANISED WIRE FENCE WHICH WILL INCLUDE 6 UNIGATES, 5 STILES AND 7 2,000 LITRE WATER STORAGE TANKS (BURIED) AS WELL AS 7 CONCRETE DRINKING TROUGHS AND 7 HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE CUMMIRK RIVER. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050519

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW SUITABLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751089

• 6 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW SUITABLE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750149

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letterbrick.

Architectural heritage

• Cummirk Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge carrying road over the Cummirk River, built c. 1770, having V-profile rubble stone voussoirs to the central piers to both upstream and downstream elevations (north and south). Segmental-headed arches having roughly dressed and square rubble stone voussoirs, and with rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Rubble stone corbels to piers of bridge below springing point. Rubble stone construction to piers and spandrels; rubble stone construction to parapets with modern blockwork repaired in places. Wrought-iron tie bars with cast-iron pattrice plates to piers and spandrels. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Cummirk River flows into River Finn a short distance to the south of site. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Ballybofey.

• School, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1935, having separate boy’s and girl’s entrances to the side elevations (north-east and south-west), and with single-storey flat-roofed cloakrooms and toilet blocks to the rear (north-west). Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof (small slates) to main body of building having clayware ridge tiles, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered chimneystack to the centre of the front pitch (south-east). Felt roofs to flat-roofed blocks. Smooth rendered walls; cut stone name and date plaque to south-west elevation (facing roads) having incised Gaelic lettering reading 'Scoil Leitin Bruic’, Scoil Naisunta, 1935'. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and remains of three-over three-pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars to flat-roofed blocks. Square-headed doorways to the side elevations (boys entrance to the south-west and girls entrance to the north-east) having original glazed timber door to girls entrance, replacement timber door to boys entrance, and with projecting rendered surrounds having projecting smooth rendered pilasters, shallow pointed parapets over and with cut stone plaques incised Gaelic lettering reading ‘Buacaillí, Boys’ and ‘Cailíní, Girls’. Set back from road in elevated site overlooking River Finn to the south. Located in the upland rural landscape to the north-west of Ballybofey. Single-storey rubble stone flat-roofed former toilet blocks to the north-east of site, served by flights of steps.

• Droichead na Comairce [Cummirk Bridge], bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge, built c.1810, crossing Abhainn na Comairce [Cummirk River]. Coursed rubble stone walls, with stone voussoirs, triangular stone cut-waters with remains of render coping, and projecting battered stone piers to both ends of bridge. Rubble stone parapets with coping of large field-stones to southeast and render to northwest, with concrete blockwork repairs. Former Letterbrick National School, now ruinous, adjacent.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Letterbrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Letterbrick · Leitir Bric

Area

4,332,266 m² (433.23 ha, 1,070.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghan electoral division: 935 people in 318 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altlahan, Arbatt, Cronadun, Glashagh Beg, Meenagolan, Meenalig, Meengilcarry

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Letterbrick 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.