Letterfore

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterfore, from 10 m² to 2,159,820 m² (215.98 ha, 533.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Letterfore 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.

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a change of house design, site layout plan & all associated site works previously granted planning permission under ref 21/2279

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25236

• 9 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a change of house design & all associated site works previously granted planning permission under reference 23/342. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 172.5 sqm & (G) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25165

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, sewage treatment system, domestic garage & all associated site works. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23342

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360503

• 13 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, sewage treatment system, domestic garage & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: h = 181 sqm & g = 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23148

• 26 Jan 2023Refused

  for the erection of 6 no. wind turbines with an overall ground to blade tip height of 185m with a rotor diameter of 162m and a hub height of 104m. The development will also consist of the construction of crane hardstand areas and turbine foundations, improvement of existing site entrance with access onto the N59, construction of one no. temporary construction compound with associated temporary site offices, parking areas and security fencing, installation of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of 104m overall height, construction of new internal site access tracks and upgrade of existing site track, to include all associated drainage including new clear span bridge crossing of the Owenwee River, development of a site drainage network, construction of one no. permanent 38kV substation, all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines to the wind farm substation and biodiversity enhancement measures and peat storage and restoration areas.Gross floor space of proposed works 93.48sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360051

• 15 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 212sqm, Garage: 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221051

• 15 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct an agricultural shed for the purpose of housing livestock, animal feedstuff and for keeping farm yard manure dry, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 247 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221052

• 2 Dec 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and garage, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 183 sqm, Garage: 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212279

• 5 Jun 2018Conditional

  of an existing development. The development consists of an existing 30 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 12/393. The development will continue to form part of Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd existing and future telecommunications and broadband network.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 18758

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letterfore.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800, with recent flat-roof extension to full length of rear (south-west) elevation, and recent timber porch with thatched roof to front. Pitched water reed thatched roof with block ridge having rendered chimneystacks and gables, roof-light to rear pitch. Painted rendered walls, slightly battered to south-east gable. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and deep reveals, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, and replacement uPVC elsewhere. Square-headed door opening to front having replacement battened timber half-door. Three-bay single-storey former forge to west and contemporary with house, now in use as house and having pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystack and gables, rendered walls with recent porches to north-west and south-west elevations and horseshoe-arched opening to north-east having replacement battened timber doors. Small pitched thatched-roof shed to south-east.

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 Letterfore, 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 Letterfore.

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 Letterfore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Letterfore · Leitir Feoir

Area

9,185,870 m² (918.59 ha, 2,269.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Letterfore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

283 people lived in 108 households in the Letterfore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnagorteeny, Barratleva, Bunnakill, Derroura, Derryerglinna, Gowlaun, Leam West, Lettercraff, Letterkeeghaun, Tullaghaboy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Letterfore 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.