Lettershea

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettershea, from 329 m² to 998,161 m² (99.82 ha, 246.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lettershea 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.

• 17 Nov 2022Conditional

  for the development consisting of extraction of rock from an area consisting of 1.9 hectares which was previously subject to rock extraction; Extraction of rock will be undertaken by blasting means down to a level of 36.4 meters ordnance datum; processing of material using mobile crushing and screening plant; All associated ancillary facilities/works; Screening berms and landscaping. The duration of the proposed works is over a 25 year period. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221176

• 6 Oct 2021N/a

  Extraction of rock from an area consisting of 1.9 hectares which was previously subject to rock extraction; Extraction of rock will be undertaken by blasting means down to a level of 36.4 metres ordnance datum; Processing of material using mobile crushing and screening plant; All associated ancillary facilities/works; Screening berms and landscaping. The duration of the proposed works is over a 25 year period. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211844

• 26 Jun 2020Refused

  for development consisting of extraction of rock from an area consisting of 1.9 hectares which was previously subject to rock extraction; Extraction of rock will be undertaken by blasting means down to a level of 36.4 m ordnance datum. Processing of material using mobile crushing and screening plant; All associated ancillary facilities / works; Screening berms and landscaping. The duration of the proposed works is over a 25 year period. This application has been accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement [NIS].

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20828

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
• Special Area of Conservation: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC 002031
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex 002031

Recorded monuments

• GA036-024 Hut site
  Description

  In cut-away bogland on an upland terrace on a ridge extending to the W from the 12 Bens mountain range with panoramic views all round, overlooking Roundstone bog and Árainn to the S, Clifden to the W and the mountains to the E. Recorded by M. Gibbons, this possible stone hut site (4.5m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE), roughly subrectangular in plan, is well defined on three of its four sides. The wall on the N side (H 0.25m; Wth 0.9m) curves and incorporates two large boulders in its external wall-face; a white quartz boulder is visible in the internal face. In the centre of the E and W walls (Wth 0.4-0.6m) stones at right angles to the walls appear to mark doorways. The S wall, which is not as clearly defined as the others, abuts outcropping rock and it appears to have been partially robbed out. The interior is level and possible traces of a roughly laid flag floor are visible. A cist (GA036-025----) lies c. 25m to the SW. The following images have been uploaded courtesy of M. Gibbons: GA036-024----_01.pdf View from NE GA036-024----_02.pdf Tall upright stone, possibly marking a doorway, in W wall GA026-024----_03.pdf Curving N section of walling Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information provided by M. Gibbons Date of upload: 19 April 2023

• GA036-025 Cist
  Description

  On a narrow terrace sloping steeply to the S, c. 25m to the SW of a possible hut site (GA036-024----). Recorded by M. Gibbons, this cist (1.6m N-S; 0.6m E-W; D 0.4m) is constructed of thin slabs of schist (T 0.1-0.15m) set end to end on the N, E and S sides and double-walling is evident on the N and S sides. Outcropping rock defines the W side. The A slab floor is visible at the base of the E end. The cist is centrally located within a cairn (4.2m N-S; c. 3.4m E-W) that is best preserved in the NE and S sectors. Some of the larger and now-displaced covering slabs are lying loose on its surface. The walls of the cist are sloping slightly to the S due to the weight of the cairn against its N side. A flint scraper found at the site suggests it is of Bronze Age date. The following images have been uploaded courtesy of M. Gibbons: GA036-025----_01.pdf View from W GA036-025----_02.pdf View of cist with outcropping rock in foreground GA036-025----_03.pdf View of cist with possible displaced capstone on left Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information provided by M. Gibbons Date of upload: 19 April 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Lettershea.

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

Name

Lettershea · Leitir Seithe

Area

2,197,011 m² (219.7 ha, 542.89 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Bencorr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bencorr electoral division: 219 people in 55 households; 72% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahinch, Barnanoraun, Derrylea, Emlaghdauroe, Emlaghmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Lettershea 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.