Lettergunnet
Townland in the civil parish of Rahoon, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Leitir Gungaid
- Area
- 343.9 ha
- 850 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,627 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettergunnet, from 109 m² to 1,240,672 m² (124.07 ha, 306.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Lettergunnet 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
21 Dec 2021Conditional
chun teach cónaithe a chóinneáil agus chun córas séarachais a úsgrádú chomh maith le gach obair láithreáin ag teastail a thógáil.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212471
5 Mar 2021Refused
for a dwelling house, separate domestic garage, septic tank / effluent treatment system, percolation area / polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 272.91 msq
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21310
19 May 2017Conditional
to (a) construct a porch to the front elevation of the existing dwelling with all associated site works (gross floor area 2.67sqm (b) permission to remove Condition 11 from planning permission granted under reference no. 01/1656. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2.67sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17712
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Moycullen Bogs NHA 002364
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettergunnet.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lettergunnet.
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 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 Lettergunnet.
- 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 Lettergunnet with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lettergunnet · Leitir Gungaid
- Area
- 3,439,471 m² (343.95 ha, 849.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Furbogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Furbogh electoral division: 1,634 people in 534 households; 78% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Allaphreaghaun, Derrycrih, Derryloughaun East, Knockarasser, Laughil, Pollnaclogha, Seershin, Shannafreaghoge
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Lettergunnet 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.