# Letter Upper, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kenmare, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Leitir Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,640,436 m² (164.04 ha, 405.36 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,776 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kenmare, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kenmare.md
- Barony: Glanarought
- Electoral division: Cappagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 404 people lived in 149 households in the Cappagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22876
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72087
- Centre: latitude 51.882898, longitude -9.481903 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letter Upper, from 327 m² to 621,995 m² (62.2 ha, 153.7 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1220165: 621,995 m² (62.2 ha, 153.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220165.md
- Parcel 1228625: 490,212 m² (49.02 ha, 121.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228625.md
- Parcel 1185199: 312,450 m² (31.24 ha, 77.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185199.md
- Parcel 1156933: 179,614 m² (17.96 ha, 44.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156933.md
- Parcel 1160539: 25,707 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160539.md
- Parcel 1143749: 3,776 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143749.md
- Parcel 1226551: 3,002 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226551.md
- Parcel 5094805: 2,168 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5094805.md
- Parcel 6028882: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6028882.md
- Parcel 1230069: 1,582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230069.md
- Parcel 1156931: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1156931.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Letter Upper 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 Letter Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Natural Heritage Area: Doughill Bog NHA, site code 001948, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001948

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE093-027001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE093-027001-. In pasture, on the crest of a ridge overlooking the valley of the Roughty River to the N. A trapezoidal area (26.5m E-W; 15m N-S at W; 10m N-S at E) enclosed by a scarp (max. H 3.6m). The entrance is at W where the scarp is lowest. A children's burial ground (KE093-027002-) is in the interior. The enclosure is overgrown with trees and undergrowth. Indicated as an embanked trapezoidal enclosure on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
- KE093-027002: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE093-027002-. Within an enclosure (KE093-02701-) which is overgrown with trees and undergrowth. Numerous low grass-covered mounds and upright stone grave-markers are mostly concentrated in the W half of the interior of the enclosure. According to Dennehy (1997, 146), these markers are of sandstone with quartz veins and there are quartz pebbles scattered across the site. A larger rectangular grass-covered mound (3.4m E-W; 2m N-S; H 0.4m) occurs near the E end of the interior of the enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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 Letter Upper.

## 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 Letter Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letter Upper.
- 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/kerry/letter-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/letter-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/letter-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Letter Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Derrylahan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrylahan-71043.md
- Letter Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/letter-lower.md
- Lounaghan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lounaghan.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.

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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/kerry/letter-upper
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