# Lettermas, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moycullen, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Leitir Meas. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,429,765 m² (342.98 ha, 847.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,084 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moycullen, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moycullen.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Spiddle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,842 people lived in 622 households in the Spiddle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% 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/18837 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63028 - Centre: latitude 53.308738, longitude -9.31066 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettermas, from 1,023 m² to 1,685,222 m² (168.52 ha, 416.43 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2080394: 1,685,222 m² (168.52 ha, 416.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080394.md - Parcel 2080395: 481,293 m² (48.13 ha, 118.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080395.md - Parcel 2114024: 470,382 m² (47.04 ha, 116.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114024.md - Parcel 2032384: 332,459 m² (33.25 ha, 82.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032384.md - Parcel 2032374: 173,451 m² (17.35 ha, 42.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032374.md - Parcel 2080396: 156,837 m² (15.68 ha, 38.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080396.md - Parcel 2032380: 12,069 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032380.md - Parcel 2080401: 9,835 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080401.md - Parcel 2032376: 8,133 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032376.md - Parcel 2080406: 7,953 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080406.md - Parcel 2080402: 5,864 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080402.md - Parcel 2080398: 5,124 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080398.md - Parcel 2032375: 4,883 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032375.md - Parcel 2032382: 4,810 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032382.md - Parcel 2032377: 3,358 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032377.md - Parcel 2080404: 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080404.md - Parcel 2080408: 2,932 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080408.md - Parcel 2080397: 2,822 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080397.md - Parcel 2080407: 2,695 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080407.md - Parcel 2080403: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080403.md - Parcel 2032378: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032378.md - Parcel 2080405: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080405.md - Parcel 2080400: 2,080 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080400.md - Parcel 2032379: 1,629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032379.md - Parcel 2080409: 1,389 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080409.md - Parcel 2080399: 1,129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080399.md - Parcel 2032383: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032383.md - Parcel 2032381: 1,023 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2032381.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lettermas 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) No planning application touches the townland of Lettermas in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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) - GA080-002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA080-002----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lettermas. ## 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 Lettermas, about 1 in 5 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 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 Lettermas. - 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/lettermas.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettermas.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettermas.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lettermas 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) - Boliska Eighter: https://everytownland.com/galway/boliska-eighter.md - Boliska Oughter: https://everytownland.com/galway/boliska-oughter.md - Letterpeak: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterpeak.md - Slieveaneena: https://everytownland.com/galway/slieveaneena.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/galway/lettermas - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/lettermas