Letter Lower

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letter Lower, from 28 m² to 335,924 m² (33.59 ha, 83.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Letter Lower 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.

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SMALL STONE OUTBUILDING (B) CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE (C) INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVE THE DWELLING (D) CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE ENTRANCE TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211506

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE AND ROADSIDE BOUNDARIES AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, (C) CONNECT THE EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE HOUSE, AND REDESIGN THE GARAGE TO CREATE A NEW UTILITY AND ENSUITE AND (D) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, AND INSTALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONSISTING OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER

  Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 179268

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONSTRUCT A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROADWAY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 17278

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE AND ROADSIDE BOUNDARIES AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, (B) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, (C) CONNECT THE EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE HOUSE, AND REDESIGN THE GARAGE TO CREATE A NEW UTILITY AND ENSUITE AND (D) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, AND INSTALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONSISTING OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17268

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 Letter Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KE093-136 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Hut site identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe in 2016.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letter Lower.

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 Letter Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Letter Lower · Leitir Íochtarach

Area

1,488,004 m² (148.8 ha, 367.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Cappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappagh electoral division: 404 people in 149 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardtully, Caher East, Derrylahan, Kilgortaree, Letter Upper, Lounaghan

Placenames

Letter Lower 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.