Letterbeg

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterbeg, from 692 m² to 175,152 m² (17.52 ha, 43.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Letterbeg 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 Sept 2026N/a

  Alteration to Existing House to include demolition of existing extensions and shed and construction of new extensions and shed, replacement of existing septic tank with a new proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660745

• 26 Feb 2026Conditional

  construction of a boat and fishing equipment storage shed together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2643

• 5 Jun 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: Demolish part of previous extension, construct new extension to rear of original dwelling

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24202

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  ALTERATION TO EXISTING HOUSE TO INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS AND SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSIONS AND SHED, REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21624

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION, A DETACHED STORAGE OUTHOUSE, DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING EXTENSION OF THE DWELLING AND THE EXISTING DETACHED STORAGE OUTHOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20522

• 7 Jan 2019Conditional

  RETAIN ALTERATIONS MADE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 194

• 31 Aug 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO AN EXISTING DWELLINHOUSE, INSTALLATION OF TERTIARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18666

• 8 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17639

• 12 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17555

• 14 Mar 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE THE DEMOLISHING OF THE OLD EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17172

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: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470

Recorded monuments

• MA024-013001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated near the southern tip of the Mullet peninsula in an area of fertile pasture. It is overlooked by higher ground to the N and E. Low cliffs lie to the N and W of the W-facing headland, and a gully lies along the southern edge. Sea rocks lie exposed above the water 200m to the W and a freshwater stream runs along the southern part of the site. A broad headland measuring 190m wide by 85m long shows traces of having been enclosed by a large curving earthen bank. This bank is 2m high and 10m wide and runs for a distance of 100m from the northern edge. It is reduced to a scarp for the next 60m and then becomes a low 1m high, 1m wide stone wall. A 4m wide fosse outside this bank has disturbed by cultivation ridges and a modern field bank. The interior of the site undulates and contains a faint platform (MA024-013003-) rising above the ground level, a small possibly artificial knoll and one circular hut site 8m in diameter (MA024-013004-, MA024-013002-). A wire fence runs around the perimeter and a short length of earthen bank suggests the interior was divided up at one time. An area marked as 'Doon, (site of)' on the second edition of the OS map lies to the south of the gully south of the site, but only vague undulations in the ground level suggest that there may have been anything there. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA024-013002 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA024-013003 Platform
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA024-013004 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA024-014 Stone circle
  Description

  Situated in a sandy field at the S end of Portglash Bay. Circular area (diam. 8.3m) defined by a series of 28 granite stones set on edge. There are breaks in the circle at E, SE and SSE. A number of small and medium sized stones protrude from the internal ground surface. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2017

• MA024-015 Building
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1922–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry Congested Districts Board or Irish Land Commission house, post-1922, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced windbreak. Now disused. Tar-covered pitched roof on an L-shaped plan with tar-covered pitched (gabled) roof to windbreak, ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, concrete rounded coping to gables with decorative timber bargeboards to gable to windbreak, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having domed pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.

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

At the centre of the townland of Letterbeg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Letterbeg.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Letterbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Letterbeg · Leitir Beag

Area

734,869 m² (73.49 ha, 181.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

An Geata Mór Theas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

881 people lived in 329 households in the An Geata M�r Theas electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fallmore, Nakil or Surgeview, Termon

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Letterbeg 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.