Lettermore

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettermore, from 1,582 m² to 146,427 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Lettermore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Lettermore 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 the townland of Lettermore.

Recorded monuments

• CV016-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Although the site has been levelled, the outline of its enclosing features is still identifiable. It formerly comprised a raised oval area (int. dims. c. 50m NE-SW; c. 43m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, deep, waterlogged fosse. When first recorded, the original entrance was not recognisable (OPW 1968). No visible remains at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV016-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 28m NNE-SSW; c. 35m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse which is identifiable only from NW-N-S where it has been recently infilled with field-clearance debris. Original entrance may have been at NW or S where there are breaks in the bank with accompanying causeways. Internal area densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV016-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 28.4m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank best preserved from NW-N-NE, and a wide, deep fosse which has been broadened at SW to form a watering-hole for cattle. Break in bank with remains of accompanying causeway at ENE represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Lettermore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Lettermore

Area

904,217 m² (90.42 ha, 223.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ashfield electoral division: 414 people in 135 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumbrollisk, Largy or Forthenry, Lisarney, Lisnageer

Placenames

Lettermore 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.