# Lettermore, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,344,583 m² (234.46 ha, 579.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,442 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Inver, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inver.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Binbane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13921 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51731 - Centre: latitude 54.711726, longitude -8.235536 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettermore, from 1,715 m² to 214,418 m² (21.44 ha, 52.98 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1390039: 214,418 m² (21.44 ha, 52.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390039.md - Parcel 1425545: 197,213 m² (19.72 ha, 48.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425545.md - Parcel 1390719: 173,937 m² (17.39 ha, 42.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390719.md - Parcel 1390720: 158,923 m² (15.89 ha, 39.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390720.md - Parcel 1425269: 111,780 m² (11.18 ha, 27.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425269.md - Parcel 1390040: 108,227 m² (10.82 ha, 26.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390040.md - Parcel 1425546: 106,801 m² (10.68 ha, 26.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425546.md - Parcel 1390297: 102,019 m² (10.2 ha, 25.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390297.md - Parcel 1389703: 100,958 m² (10.1 ha, 24.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389703.md - Parcel 1390561: 98,332 m² (9.83 ha, 24.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390561.md - Parcel 1389801: 91,201 m² (9.12 ha, 22.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389801.md - Parcel 1390295: 84,201 m² (8.42 ha, 20.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390295.md - Parcel 1390299: 83,855 m² (8.39 ha, 20.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390299.md - Parcel 1390298: 78,012 m² (7.8 ha, 19.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390298.md - Parcel 1425270: 74,491 m² (7.45 ha, 18.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425270.md - Parcel 1419190: 71,436 m² (7.14 ha, 17.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419190.md - Parcel 1390042: 65,959 m² (6.6 ha, 16.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390042.md - Parcel 1419079: 55,249 m² (5.52 ha, 13.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419079.md - Parcel 1425272: 50,190 m² (5.02 ha, 12.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425272.md - Parcel 5129355: 45,161 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5129355.md - Parcel 1384224: 40,997 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384224.md - Parcel 1425543: 37,829 m² (3.78 ha, 9.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425543.md - Parcel 1425547: 31,442 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425547.md - Parcel 1425836: 22,048 m² (2.2 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425836.md - Parcel 1384226: 14,464 m² (1.45 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384226.md - Parcel 1425273: 13,071 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425273.md - Parcel 3658315: 12,813 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658315.md - Parcel 1390562: 11,965 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390562.md - Parcel 1425544: 11,180 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425544.md - Parcel 1426008: 10,336 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426008.md - Parcel 1384225: 7,231 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384225.md - Parcel 1425001: 6,917 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425001.md - Parcel 1328666: 5,636 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328666.md - Parcel 1327802: 5,129 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327802.md - Parcel 1425271: 4,629 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425271.md - Parcel 1389802: 4,140 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389802.md - Parcel 1425548: 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1425548.md - Parcel 1390296: 3,164 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390296.md - Parcel 4972444: 3,125 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4972444.md - Parcel 3658314: 2,795 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658314.md - Parcel 1333869: 2,765 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333869.md - Parcel 1329601: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329601.md - Parcel 1390459: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390459.md - Parcel 1390041: 1,929 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390041.md - Parcel 1410532: 1,715 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410532.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 24 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561654: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561654/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lettermore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG084-002001: Stone circle, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG084-002001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG084-002002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Lettermore National School, school, 1900–1910, Regional interest, registry number 40909323, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909323. 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, registry number 40909324, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909324. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/lettermore-51731.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettermore-51731.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettermore-51731.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lettermore 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) - Drumagraa: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumagraa.md - Luaghnabrogue: https://everytownland.com/donegal/luaghnabrogue.md - Meenagran: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenagran.md - Meentacor: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentacor.md - Meentacreeghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentacreeghan.md - Tievachorky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tievachorky.md - Tullycumber: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullycumber.md - Tullytrasna: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullytrasna-52636.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. --- 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/lettermore-51731 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/lettermore-51731