Letteragh
Townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Leitir Riabhach
- Area
- 51 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 11,818 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letteragh, from 2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 108,122 m² (10.81 ha, 26.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Letteragh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
permission and retention permission for development consists of; retention of extension to front porch, and also will consist of; construction of two storey rear and side extension, re-location of existing site entrance, new wastewater treatment system, alterations and additions to interior and exterior of existing dwelling, entrance walls, piers and gates, boundary fencing, revised boundaries and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660339
18 Oct 2024N/a
planning permission to demolish 1 Existing agricultural shed and to construct 2 No. Poultry Houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s), etc.) and associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance)
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460386
18 Jun 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 2 No. Poultry Houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s),etc.) and associated site works (to include new site entrance)
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18276
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Letteragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letteragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Letteragh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letteragh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Letteragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Letteragh · Leitir Riabhach
- Area
- 510,209 m² (51.02 ha, 126.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Clontibret, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clontibret electoral division: 792 people in 263 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arclintagh, Avalbane, Carrickanure, Cornamucklagh North, Letterbane
- Placenames
- Letteragh 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.