Lettermore

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettermore, from 1,715 m² to 214,418 m² (21.44 ha, 52.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Lettermore 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561654

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lettermore.

Recorded monuments

• DG084-002001 Stone circle
  Description

  Marked 'Cloghbrack Burial Ground' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site consists of part of a circle of standing stones, the N and E sides only surviving. Nine stones survive. The interior is covered with a light scatter of stones but there is no evidence for the 'central grave' recorded here by Davies in 1940. A discontinuous wall runs for 33.5m N-S from the highest surviving stone of the circle. The wall is made up of orthostats and flat-topped boulders. 19m E of this wall, a second wall runs roughly NNE-SSW for 15m. The site is located in rough pasture with rock outcrop and blanket bog. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG084-002002 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked 'Cloghbrack Burial Ground' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site consists of part of a circle of standing stones (DG084-002001-), the N and E sides only surviving. Nine stones survive. The interior is covered with a light scatter of stones but there is no evidence for the 'central grave' recorded here by Davies in 1940. A discontinuous wall runs for 33.5m N-S from the highest surviving stone of the circle. The wall is made up of orthostats and flat-topped boulders. 19m E of this wall, a second wall runs roughly NNE-SSW for 15m. The site is located in rough pasture with rock outcrop and blanket bog. Date of revision : 16 May 2009 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Architectural heritage

• Lettermore National School, school, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey former national school on T-shaped plan, dated 1909, having gabled projection to the centre of the main elevation (west) and with single-storey shed addition/toilet block to the rear (east) at the north end. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, exposed timber rafter ends, central metal roof vent, projecting rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south) and with cut stone corbels to the corners of the main block. Raised rendered verge to central gabled projection with cut stone kneeler stones/corbels at eaves level. Catslide roof over shed addition/toilet block to rear. Roughcast rendered walls to east and west elevations, and to gabled projection; smooth rendered walls to north and south gable ends. Cut stone date plaque to the centre of the gabled projection inscribed ‘LETTERMORE NATIONAL SCHOOL 1909’. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to front face of gabled projection (west) and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the side elevations of main block (north and south). Render failing in places exposing brick surrounds to window openings. Square-headed door opening to south side of gabled projection having timber panelled door. Two steps to entrance having metal bootscraper. Interior main space divided into two classrooms by timber folding partition with glass panels to upper sections; wainscoting to walls. Coat hooks along picture rail. Set back from road in elevated site in own grounds in the isolated rural countryside to the north of Frosses, and to the north-east of Inver. Mature trees to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to road-frontage to the west. Pedestrian gateway to the west of gabled projection having a pair of dressed ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal stone coping over, and with wrought-iron flat bar gate. Rubble stone walls to rear of site.

• Lettermore Bridge, bridge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying small country road over tributary of the Eanybeg Water, built c. 1860, having rock-faced ashlar V-profile cutwater to central pier. Segmental-headed arches having rock-faced stone voussoirs with dressed margins; cement rendered finish to arch barrels. Coursed and roughly coursed rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Coursed rubble stone construction to parapets with rock-faced coping over; modern concrete repairs in places. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located adjacent to road junction. Located in the rural landscape to the north of Frosses.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lettermore

Area

2,344,583 m² (234.46 ha, 579.36 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Binbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Binbane electoral division: 169 people in 64 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumagraa, Luaghnabrogue, Meenagran, Meentacor, Meentacreeghan, Tievachorky, Tullycumber, Tullytrasna

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lettermore 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.