Letterleague
Letterleague is a townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Leitir Liag.
Parcel 1331811
- Area
- 4,135 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Letterleague
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 241.8 ha
- 598 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 4,860 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterleague, from 39 m² to 203,971 m² (20.4 ha, 50.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Letterleague 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
24 Jul 2026Conditional
(1) RENOVATION AND RESTORATION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) PROVISION OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661389
21 Jul 2026N/a
(1) RENOVATION AND RESTORATION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE, (2) 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE, (3) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) PROVISION OF A SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661347
16 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND NEW REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING FARM COTTAGE, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTSHED TO SIDE OF EXISTING FARM COTTAGE AND NEW SUN ROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING FARM COTTAGE AND (3) INCREASE IN ROOF AND RIDGE HEIGHT TO FORM NEW LIVING ACCOMMODATION TO FIRST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING FARM COTTAGE, AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560581
11 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DOMESTIC EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING COTTAGE DWELLING, WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350466
9 Jun 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750909
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods 002011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Letterleague.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Letterleague.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Letterleague, 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 Letterleague.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Letterleague with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Letterleague · Leitir Liag
- Area
- 2,418,031 m² (241.8 ha, 597.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Corravaddy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,739 people lived in 603 households in the Corravaddy electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brownhall, Corravaddy, Glenoughty, Kirkneedy, Listack, Rann, Rareagh, Rockhill
- Placenames
- Letterleague 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.