Letter

121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letter, from 84 m² to 148,350 m² (14.84 ha, 36.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 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.

• 3 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to construct an Agricultural Shed incorporating Stables, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660620

• 3 Aug 2026N/a

  Planning Permission to construct a domestic garage, all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660621

• 11 Apr 2023N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: Dwelling house

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23184

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER P18/575 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22239

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION ALONG WITH EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES INCLUDING EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21326

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, PRORRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM, PRECOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20523

• 29 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19588

• 21 Dec 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WTIH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 181038

• 23 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18575

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.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letter.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Letter · Leitir

Area

3,538,577 m² (353.86 ha, 874.4 acres)

Civil parish

Islandeady, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Islandeady, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Islandeady electoral division: 1,079 people in 382 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleva, Ballyglass, Cartronduff, Derrartan, Derrintloura, Derrycooraun, Derrycreeve, Derrygowla, Slinaunroe

Placenames

Letter 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.