Lettercran

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettercran, from 39 m² to 197,364 m² (19.74 ha, 48.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Lettercran 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 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED DRY FEED AND MACHINERY STORAGE SHED, CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462121

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: Lough Nageage SAC 002135

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettercran.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay Catholic church, built c. 1834, having steeped cut stone bellcote with feathered cut stone coping over to the entrance gable (south-west), added 1905, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the south-west gable, and with later single-storey sacristy attached to the north-east/chancel. Altered in 1954. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having terracotta ridge tiles, rendered eaves course, and raised rendered coping/verges to the gable end having cross finials over gable apex to the north-east and moulded kneeler stones to eaves. Pitched slate roofs to porch and later sacristy. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined chimneystack to sacristy. Cut stone cross finial over bellcote. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling with banded channelled quoins block quoins to the corners. Pointed-arched window opening with leaded coloured windows, dated 1954. Square-headed doorway to the south-east face of porch having replacement timber battened door. Flat ceiling to interiors with timber pews, carved marble reredos and altar rails with polychromatic inset colonnettes and panels. Graveyard to site with collection of upstanding, recumbent and table-type memorial monuments. Smooth rendered boundary walls to site. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal capstones and with a pair of wrought-iron gates having arrow finials and with central curved wrought-iron finials. Set slightly back from road in own site adjacent to rural road junction. Located to the north-east of Pettigoe, a very short from the border with County Fermanagh and Northern Ireland.

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 Lettercran, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Lettercran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Lettercran

Area

2,108,401 m² (210.84 ha, 521 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Grousehall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

84 people lived in 32 households in the Grousehall electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashelenny, Crilly

Placenames

Lettercran 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.