# Lettermoneel, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish Leitir Móiníl. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,252,545 m² (125.25 ha, 309.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,787 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcrohane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilcrohane.md - Barony: Dunkerron South - Electoral division: Sneem, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Sneem electoral division: 836 people in 272 households; 62% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23148 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72096 - Centre: latitude 51.880603, longitude -9.819265 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettermoneel, from 416 m² to 568,088 m² (56.81 ha, 140.38 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1185363: 568,088 m² (56.81 ha, 140.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185363.md - Parcel 1187879: 323,990 m² (32.4 ha, 80.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1187879.md - Parcel 1245787: 9,654 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245787.md - Parcel 1206395: 7,787 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206395.md - Parcel 1244765: 2,370 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244765.md - Parcel 1244247: 997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244247.md - Parcel 1245349: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245349.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lettermoneel 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) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Oct 2025, Kerry County Council 2560907: Conditional. Retention. retain cabin like structure on site and Planning Permission to renovate and extend an existing dwelling. The works will include the demolition of front porch, construction of a single storey extension to front and side of existing two storey dwelling, the installation of a mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560907/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Kerry) SAC, site code 002173, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002173 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE091-061: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE091-061----. This enclosure, marked as a small circular outline on the second edition of the OS map, was located in rough grazing pasture on the lower N slopes of Knocknafreaghane. Land clearance may have resulted in its removal. It would appear, because of its small size, to have been a fionnán enclosure. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 829. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013 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 Lettermoneel. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Lettermoneel. - 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/lettermoneel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lettermoneel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lettermoneel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lettermoneel 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) - Bogare: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bogare.md - Dromlusk: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromlusk.md - Gortagowan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortagowan.md - Gortfadda: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortfadda.md - Letterfinish: https://everytownland.com/kerry/letterfinish.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. --- 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/lettermoneel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/lettermoneel