Lettergull

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettergull, from 920 m² to 505,188 m² (50.52 ha, 124.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Lettergull 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.

• 1 May 2026Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT ON LANDS WITHIN AND ADJOINING THE PERMITTED LETTERGULL WIND FARM (PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50156, ACP REF. 304685-19) WHICH WILL COMPRISE OF THE PROVISION OF A RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) 1 NO. WIND TURBINE WITH AN OVERALL BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF 135M, ROTOR DIAMETER OF 115M, AND A HUB HEIGHT OF 77.5M, (2) TURBINE FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATED HARD-STANDING AREAS, (3) TEMPORARY WORKS TO THE EXISTING LETTERGULL WIND FARM SITE ACCESS (AS PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50156, ACP REF. 304685-19) TO FACILITATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROPOSED WIND TURBINE CONSISTING OF THE REMOVAL AND REINSTATEMENT OF FENCING AND LANDSCAPING AND TEMPORARY WIDENING OF THE SITE ACCESS JUNCTION, (4) PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACK CONNECTING THE PROPOSED WIND TURBINE TO THE EXISTING INTERNAL LETTERGULL WIND FARM SITE ACCESS TRACKS (AS PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50156, ACP REF. 304685-19), (5) TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND AND TEMPORARY LAYDOWN AREA, (6) ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE PROPOSED WIND TURBINE TO THE PERMITTED ON-SITE 38KV SUBSTATION (AS PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50156, ACP REF. 304685-19), (7) SITE DRAINAGE, (8) ACCESS GATES, FENCING AND SIGNAGE AND (9) ALL RELATED SITE WORKS ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT. FOLLOWING A THIRTY-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF FULL COMMISSIONING OF THE WIND TURBINE THE PROPOSED WIND TURBINE AND ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACCESSED VIA THE EXISTING LETTERGULL WIND FARM SITE ENTRANCE ON THE R236 REGIONAL ROAD AND EXISTING INTERNAL LETTERGULL WIND FARM SITE ACCESS TRACKS (AS PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50156, ACP REF. 304685-19). AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION. THE EIAR AND NIS ASSESS THE FULL EXTENT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AS DESCRIBED IN (1) – (9) ABOVE AS WELL AS THE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS FROM THE PORT OF KILLYBEGS TO THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE VIA THE NATIONAL (N56, N15 AND N14) REGIONAL (R263 AND R236) PUBLIC ROAD NETWORK IN COUNTY DONEGAL. THE DEVELOPMENT IS COVERED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE (RED III) RENEWABLE ENERGY DIRECTIVE III (DIRECTIVE (EU) 2023/2413)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660788

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  DRY BEDDED SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560978

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE TWO STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE/STORE, FOUL WATER WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150563

• 13 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND PROVISION OF AN ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850555

• 7 Feb 2018Refused

  A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM WITH A 30 YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE (FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE ENTIRE WIND FARM) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING: UP TO 6 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH AN OVERALL BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP 135 METRES AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARD-STANDING AREAS, 1 NO. BORROW PIT, 1 NO. PERMANENT ANEMOMETRY MAST UP TO A HEIGHT OF 100 METRES, UPGRADE OF EXISTING AND PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS ROADS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE, 1 NO. ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION COMPOUND, WHICH WILL HAVE 1 NO. CONTROL BUILDING, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, AND A WASTE WATER HOLDING TANK. 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE SUBSTATION, AS WELL AS ON-SITE UNDERGROUND CABLING TO FACILITATE ELECTRICAL CONNECTION TO THE NATIONAL GRID, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, INCLUDING AMENITY TRAILS ON WIND FARM ROADS, CAR PARKING, SEATING/BENCHES AND SIGNAGE. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850156

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 Lettergull.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettergull.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lettergull, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1925 (ZIP).

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

Name

Lettergull

Area

2,268,189 m² (226.82 ha, 560.48 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylennan, Drummucklagh, Legnatraw, Momeen, Treansallagh, Woodlands

Placenames

Lettergull 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.