Letter

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letter, from 86 m² to 338,592 m² (33.86 ha, 83.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Letter 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.

• 7 Dec 2011Conditional

  Proposed sunroom extension to the front and gable side, and conversion of attic space to storage with velux windows front and back

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/742

• 30 Nov 2011Incompleted application

  Proposed sunroom extension to the front and gable side, and conversion of attic space to storage with velux windows front and back

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/724

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: Barley Cove to Ballyrisode Point SAC 001040
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barley Cove To Ballyrisode Point 001040

Recorded monuments

• CO147-043001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough grazing at base steep slope. Spring (D 0.21m) enclosed by two large flat stones and several smaller ones. Said to be visited on St. John's Eve. According to Roberts (1988), well dedicated to St. Brendan. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO147-043002 Enclosure
  Description

  On N side of SW-NE mountain ridge. Circular area (7.2m N-S; 6m E-W) defined by low bank of stones; some are embedded, others are scattered loosely. Cross-slab (CO147-043003-) set radially in NE bank; second radially-set stone 1.7m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO147-043003 Cross-slab
  Description

  Thin slab (H. 0.89m; 0.41m x 0.06m), long axis N-S, leaning to S. Set radially in enclosing wall of circular enclosure (CO147-043002-). Shallow Latin cross incised on E face (H 0.56m; Wth 0.24m). Terminal S arm damaged by weathering. With another radial stone in wall to SE, could be part of entrance feature to enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Letter.

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.

No address of the register names Letter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Letter · Leitir

Area

903,732 m² (90.37 ha, 223.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoe, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Crookhaven, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crookhaven electoral division: 205 people in 94 households; 92% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 63% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arduslough, Ballyvoge Beg, Dough, Kilbarry, Killeane, Tooreen

Placenames

Letter 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.