Lettertreane
Lettertreane is a townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Leitir Tréin.
Parcel 1332933
- Area
- 250,111 m² (25.01 ha, 61.8 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
- Lettertreane
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 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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.
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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
- 223 ha
- 551 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 28,493 m² (2.85 ha, 7.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettertreane, from 238 m² to 250,111 m² (25.01 ha, 61.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Lettertreane 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
22 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) FORMING A NEW VEHICLE ENTRANCE TO SITE OFF LOCAL RD L-1715-1, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ACCESS LANE AND ASSOCIATED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) PROVISION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661147
17 Nov 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152267
27 Jan 2021Conditional
(1) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW VEHICLE ENTRANCE TO SITE OFF LOCAL RD L-1715-1 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ACCESS LANE AND ASSOCIATED DOMESTIC GARAGE (3) INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150091
20 Feb 2019Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AS CONSTRUCTED FROM THAT AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF 98/2726 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) THE CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE INTO PART OF THE HABITABLE DWELLING WHICH SHALL INCLUDE THE RAISING OF THE RIDGE HEIGHT AND FORMING A DORMER TYPE DWELLING, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO THE ROOF DESIGN AND ELEVATIONS (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTNG DWELLING, INCLUDING CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS (3) CHANGES TO THE FENESTRATION AND EXTERNAL FINISHES OF THE EXISTNG DWELLING (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (5) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950212
16 Nov 2018N/a
(1) THE CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE INTO PART OF THE HABITABLE DWELLING WHICH SHALL INCLUDE THE RAISING OF THE RIDGE HEIGHT AND FORMING A DORMER TYPE DWELLING, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO THE ROOF DESIGN AND ELEVATIONS (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTNG DWELLING, INCLUDING CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS (3) CHANGES TO THE FENESTRATION AND EXTERNAL FINISHES OF THE EXISTNG DWELLING (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (5) ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGES TO THE HOUSE DESIGN OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 98/2726, WHICH INCLUDES CHANGES TO THE FENESTRATION ON ALL ELEVATIONS, FOR THE CHANGE OF THE DESIGN OF ALL ELEVATIONS, CHANGES TO THE ROOF DESIGN AND RECONFIGURATION OF THE INTERNAL ROOM LAYOUTS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851765
21 Dec 2017N/a
EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751976
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Meenaguse/Ardbane Bog SAC 000172
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Meenaguse/Ardbane Bog 000172
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettertreane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lettertreane.
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 Lettertreane, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lettertreane.
- 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 Lettertreane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Lettertreane · Leitir Tréin
- Area
- 2,230,006 m² (223 ha, 551.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Eanymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 547 people lived in 225 households in the Eanymore electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumboarty, Drumrone, Letterbarra, Letterfad, Sallows
- Placenames
- Lettertreane 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.