Letterpeak

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterpeak, from 16 m² to 421,964 m² (42.2 ha, 104.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Letterpeak 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.

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  chun teach nua cónaithe a thógáil, garáiste nua, agus córás searachais nua, ag an seoladh thuas. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 205.50 sqm (H) & 52.00 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460894

• 29 Aug 2019Conditional

  chun slí isteach a athlonnú, ceadaithe faoi thagairt pleanála 15872

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191345

• 16 Aug 2018Conditional

  to retain the dwelling as constructed including the treatment plant and also permission to remove the enurement clause that was attached to the original planning (Planning Reg. Ref. 99/4924). Gross floor space of proposed works 130.47 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181167

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 Letterpeak.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Letterpeak.

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.

No address of the register names Letterpeak with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Letterpeak · Leitir Péic

Area

2,409,573 m² (240.96 ha, 595.42 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Spiddle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Spiddle electoral division: 1,842 people in 622 households; 74% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boliska Eighter, Lettermas, Shannagurraun, Slieveaneena

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Letterpeak 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.