# Lettercran, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,108,401 m² (210.84 ha, 521 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,477 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Grousehall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14090
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51723
- Centre: latitude 54.608619, longitude -7.726254 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettercran, from 39 m² to 197,364 m² (19.74 ha, 48.77 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1336870: 197,364 m² (19.74 ha, 48.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336870.md
- Parcel 1393033: 187,139 m² (18.71 ha, 46.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393033.md
- Parcel 1405978: 152,295 m² (15.23 ha, 37.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405978.md
- Parcel 1427982: 151,655 m² (15.17 ha, 37.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427982.md
- Parcel 1379050: 125,110 m² (12.51 ha, 30.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379050.md
- Parcel 1346058: 123,097 m² (12.31 ha, 30.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346058.md
- Parcel 1340247: 97,715 m² (9.77 ha, 24.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340247.md
- Parcel 1326151: 91,184 m² (9.12 ha, 22.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326151.md
- Parcel 1331319: 77,553 m² (7.76 ha, 19.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331319.md
- Parcel 1382341: 72,871 m² (7.29 ha, 18.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382341.md
- Parcel 1342557: 71,801 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342557.md
- Parcel 1339120: 71,205 m² (7.12 ha, 17.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339120.md
- Parcel 1384531: 68,708 m² (6.87 ha, 16.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384531.md
- Parcel 1423776: 63,436 m² (6.34 ha, 15.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423776.md
- Parcel 1332443: 59,659 m² (5.97 ha, 14.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332443.md
- Parcel 1391141: 46,370 m² (4.64 ha, 11.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391141.md
- Parcel 1402428: 45,969 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402428.md
- Parcel 1412686: 44,327 m² (4.43 ha, 10.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412686.md
- Parcel 1526702: 41,250 m² (4.13 ha, 10.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526702.md
- Parcel 1409511: 37,041 m² (3.7 ha, 9.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409511.md
- Parcel 1357954: 35,774 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357954.md
- Parcel 1403299: 35,593 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403299.md
- Parcel 1409277: 32,874 m² (3.29 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409277.md
- Parcel 1369765: 25,868 m² (2.59 ha, 6.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369765.md
- Parcel 1362158: 22,196 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362158.md
- Parcel 1407079: 21,477 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407079.md
- Parcel 1407181: 16,605 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407181.md
- Parcel 1328270: 14,967 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328270.md
- Parcel 1328238: 11,601 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328238.md
- Parcel 1315810: 8,831 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315810.md
- Parcel 1379104: 7,656 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379104.md
- Parcel 4860236: 6,970 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860236.md
- Parcel 1327727: 6,003 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327727.md
- Parcel 1375475: 4,203 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375475.md
- Parcel 1325322: 4,175 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325322.md
- Parcel 1409343: 3,352 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409343.md
- Parcel 1342026: 3,143 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342026.md
- Parcel 1375431: 3,022 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375431.md
- Parcel 4860232: 2,969 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860232.md
- Parcel 1413274: 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413274.md
- Parcel 4860240: 2,674 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860240.md
- Parcel 1526701: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526701.md
- Parcel 1373429: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373429.md
- Parcel 4860223: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860223.md
- Parcel 6192537: 1,271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6192537.md
- Parcel 1400686: 1,195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400686.md
- Parcel 1384900: 663 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384900.md
- Parcel 1409311: 638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409311.md
- Parcel 1302164: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302164.md
- Parcel 1318647: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318647.md
- Parcel 5769076: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5769076.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 18 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462121: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED DRY FEED AND MACHINERY STORAGE SHED, CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462121/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nageage SAC, site code 002135, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002135

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettercran.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840, Regional interest, registry number 40910202, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40910202. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettercran.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettercran.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettercran.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Lettercran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cashelenny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashelenny.md
- Crilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crilly.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettercran
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/lettercran