Letternoosh

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letternoosh, from 14 m² to 414,890 m² (41.49 ha, 102.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Letternoosh 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.

• 14 Sept 2026N/a

  for; 1) dwelling as constructed and associated out building as constructed, 2) for the decommissioning of existing septic tank, and the installation of an upgraded wastewater treatment & disposal system, and all associated site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661556

• 17 Jul 2024Refused

  to construct new dwelling house & domestic garage construct new effluent treatment system, all associated site works and to retain existing site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 140.66 sqm (house) & 34.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460886

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  For 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, 2360510

• 29 May 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.68 sqm (House), 68.00 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20659

• 6 Apr 2020Conditional

  for new covered tent preparation area and storage shed as well as all ancillary site works: Gross floor space of proposed works: 200.43 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20441

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  for (1) of existing vehicular site entrance and existing farm access road (2) Retention of existing farm storage shed (3) Retention of small area of reclaimed land (4) Permission for new forest access road as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained; Agricultural Shed - 70.00 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191924

• 19 Sept 2019N/a

  of (1) existing vehicular site entrance and existing farm access road (2) Retention of existing farm storage shed (3) Retention of small area of reclaimed land (4) Permission for new forest access road as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 70.00 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191454

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Letternoosh.

Recorded monuments

• GA035-055 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In cutaway bog on a ridge summit. The monument consists of a gallery (L 1.8m, Wth 1m) aligned E-W and formed of four stones. Two further stones, probably outer walling, are exposed to S. A displaced roofstone rests against the two taller W stones. Remains are probably those of a wedge-tomb. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Letternoosh.

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 Letternoosh, 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 Letternoosh.

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

Name

Letternoosh · Leitir Núis

Area

1,611,089 m² (161.11 ha, 398.11 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Atticlogh, Glenbrickeen, Letterdeen, Shanakeever, Streamstown or Barratrough

Placenames

Letternoosh 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.