# Letterfore, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Leitir Feoir.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 9,185,870 m² (918.59 ha, 2,269.88 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,098 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md
- Barony: Moycullen
- Electoral division: Letterfore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20793
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63022
- Centre: latitude 53.448314, longitude -9.432591 (WGS 84)

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

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterfore, from 10 m² to 2,159,820 m² (215.98 ha, 533.7 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2029158: 2,159,820 m² (215.98 ha, 533.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029158.md
- Parcel 2076962: 1,379,603 m² (137.96 ha, 340.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076962.md
- Parcel 2029160: 692,991 m² (69.3 ha, 171.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029160.md
- Parcel 2023036: 569,541 m² (56.95 ha, 140.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023036.md
- Parcel 2029159: 379,280 m² (37.93 ha, 93.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029159.md
- Parcel 2070383: 339,899 m² (33.99 ha, 83.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2070383.md
- Parcel 2076949: 321,104 m² (32.11 ha, 79.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076949.md
- Parcel 5531802: 289,990 m² (29 ha, 71.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531802.md
- Parcel 2029143: 240,558 m² (24.06 ha, 59.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029143.md
- Parcel 2029138: 162,372 m² (16.24 ha, 40.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029138.md
- Parcel 6065461: 158,383 m² (15.84 ha, 39.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065461.md
- Parcel 5531786: 153,735 m² (15.37 ha, 37.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531786.md
- Parcel 2029140: 143,272 m² (14.33 ha, 35.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029140.md
- Parcel 5649854: 125,727 m² (12.57 ha, 31.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649854.md
- Parcel 2076945: 117,870 m² (11.79 ha, 29.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076945.md
- Parcel 2076944: 89,166 m² (8.92 ha, 22.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076944.md
- Parcel 2076952: 74,307 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076952.md
- Parcel 2076941: 74,090 m² (7.41 ha, 18.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076941.md
- Parcel 2076943: 70,347 m² (7.03 ha, 17.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076943.md
- Parcel 2076961: 50,196 m² (5.02 ha, 12.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076961.md
- Parcel 2029150: 48,591 m² (4.86 ha, 12.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029150.md
- Parcel 2029147: 47,831 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029147.md
- Parcel 2029141: 39,617 m² (3.96 ha, 9.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029141.md
- Parcel 2076960: 28,856 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076960.md
- Parcel 2076954: 25,178 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076954.md
- Parcel 5649752: 21,749 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649752.md
- Parcel 2029139: 19,066 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029139.md
- Parcel 5515412: 17,067 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515412.md
- Parcel 5690745: 16,676 m² (1.67 ha, 4.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5690745.md
- Parcel 2029145: 16,236 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029145.md
- Parcel 6065443: 16,225 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065443.md
- Parcel 2076951: 13,403 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076951.md
- Parcel 2739909: 12,355 m² (1.24 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739909.md
- Parcel 2029144: 12,342 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029144.md
- Parcel 2029146: 9,435 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029146.md
- Parcel 5531782: 8,860 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531782.md
- Parcel 5515372: 8,801 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515372.md
- Parcel 2029152: 8,528 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029152.md
- Parcel 2076948: 7,798 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076948.md
- Parcel 2029151: 7,692 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029151.md
- Parcel 2029148: 7,665 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029148.md
- Parcel 5649830: 6,842 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649830.md
- Parcel 2076959: 6,385 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076959.md
- Parcel 2076950: 5,812 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076950.md
- Parcel 2029155: 5,400 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029155.md
- Parcel 2029157: 5,109 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029157.md
- Parcel 2739910: 5,023 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739910.md
- Parcel 5649758: 4,269 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649758.md
- Parcel 2076958: 4,213 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076958.md
- Parcel 2076947: 3,495 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076947.md
- Parcel 2029153: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029153.md
- Parcel 6065439: 3,382 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065439.md
- Parcel 4966439: 3,041 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4966439.md
- Parcel 5649852: 3,015 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649852.md
- Parcel 6065458: 2,581 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065458.md
- Parcel 2029156: 2,499 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029156.md
- Parcel 2029154: 2,108 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029154.md
- Parcel 6065456: 2,088 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6065456.md
- Parcel 4455663: 1,655 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4455663.md
- Parcel 2076946: 1,646 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076946.md
- Parcel 4455665: 1,355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4455665.md
- Parcel 5531769: 1,321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531769.md
- Parcel 2029149: 1,286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029149.md
- Parcel 2739915: 1,268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739915.md
- Parcel 2076953: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076953.md
- Parcel 2076955: 997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076955.md
- Parcel 5649825: 874 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649825.md
- Parcel 5649868: 832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649868.md
- Parcel 2076957: 488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076957.md
- Parcel 5690760: 420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5690760.md
- Parcel 5522019: 370 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522019.md
- Parcel 5444064: 232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5444064.md
- Parcel 2076956: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2076956.md
- Parcel 5649706: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649706.md
- Parcel 6060601: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6060601.md
- Parcel 5649849: 168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649849.md
- Parcel 5649826: 162 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649826.md
- Parcel 5649851: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5649851.md
- Parcel 2029142: 109 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2029142.md
- Parcel 5579159: 104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579159.md
- Parcel 2733253: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733253.md
- Parcel 2733252: 62 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733252.md
- Parcel 2733254: 38 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733254.md
- Parcel 2733255: 30 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733255.md
- Parcel 5690737: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5690737.md
- Parcel 5690759: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5690759.md

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

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.

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

10 applications, newest first.

- 11 Sept 2025, Galway County Council 25236: Conditional. Permission. for a change of house design, site layout plan & all associated site works previously granted planning permission under ref 21/2279. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25236/0
- 9 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 25165: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25165/0
- 24 Aug 2023, Galway County Council 23342: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwellinghouse, sewage treatment system, domestic garage & all associated site works. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23342/0
- 15 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360503: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360503/0
- 13 Apr 2023, Galway County Council 23148: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23148/0
- 26 Jan 2023, Galway County Council 2360051: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360051/0
- 15 Sept 2022, Galway County Council 221051: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/221051/0
- 15 Sept 2022, Galway County Council 221052: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/221052/0
- 2 Dec 2021, Galway County Council 212279: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212279/0
- 5 Jun 2018, Galway County Council 18758: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18758/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letterfore.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 30405302, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30405302. 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.

## 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 Letterfore, 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 Letterfore.
- 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/galway/letterfore.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterfore.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterfore.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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

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

- Barnagorteeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/barnagorteeny.md
- Barratleva: https://everytownland.com/galway/barratleva.md
- Bunnakill: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunnakill.md
- Derroura: https://everytownland.com/galway/derroura.md
- Derryerglinna: https://everytownland.com/galway/derryerglinna.md
- Gowlaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/gowlaun-62364.md
- Leam West: https://everytownland.com/galway/leam-west.md
- Lettercraff: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettercraff.md
- Letterkeeghaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterkeeghaun.md
- Tullaghaboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullaghaboy.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.

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