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Letterfad

Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Leitir Fada

Area
617.9 ha
1,527 acres
Land parcels
72
registered freehold, median 9,144 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
5
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

4212 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterfad, from 200 m² to 781,057 m² (78.11 ha, 193 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Letterfad 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

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letterfad.

Architectural heritage

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

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
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letterfad.
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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

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

The townland

Name
Letterfad · Leitir Fada
Area
6,179,349 m² (617.93 ha, 1,526.95 acres)
Civil parish
Inver, and its townlands
Barony
Banagh
Electoral division
Eanymore, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Eanymore electoral division: 547 people in 225 households; 75% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ardbane, Drumboarty, Lettertreane, Meenaguse Beg, Meenaguse More, Owenboy, Sallows, Sheskinatawy, Sruell, Tullynaha
Gaeltacht
In an Irish-speaking area
Placenames
Letterfad 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.