Lettermakenny
Townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
Parcel 4968280
- Area
- 9,480 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 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
- Lettermakenny
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 173 ha
- 428 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 8,359 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettermakenny, from 69 m² to 181,561 m² (18.16 ha, 44.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lettermakenny 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 Jun 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED RESIDENTIAL ANNEX WITH VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, CONNECTION INTO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50785) AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661167
1 May 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF (A) DORMER WINDOWS TO REAR ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF DEMOLITION HEREIN) (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTACHED STORAGE SHED, (C) DETACHED GARDEN STORAGE SHED AND (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660775
26 Jan 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. PIG HOUSES WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANKS, 1 NO. FEED SILO AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660085
29 Nov 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351831
27 Jul 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251289
17 Dec 2021Conditional
DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF (1) EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, PROPOSED WORKS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISION OF ROOF WINDOW AND ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) A GAMES ROOM / HOME OFFICE SPACE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152536
8 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151108
28 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150785
1 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150346
1 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A TIMBER FENCE ALONG AN 18.4M SECTION OF THE EXISTING EASTERN SITE BOUNDARY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150329
9 Nov 2020Conditional
PARTIALLY COMPLETE DWELLING AND DOMESTIC STORE CONSTRUCTED TO SUB-FLOOR LEVEL AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF THE EXISTING WORKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051689
5 Nov 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRAL GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051661
18 Sept 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051316
24 May 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALSO FOR DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050622
12 Nov 2019N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951751
18 Oct 2019N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951597
15 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950359
6 Feb 2019Conditional
A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950159
19 Sept 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851429
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lettermakenny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lettermakenny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lettermakenny.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lettermakenny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lettermakenny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Lettermakenny
- Area
- 1,730,283 m² (173.03 ha, 427.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stranorlar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Stranorlar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stranorlar electoral division: 4,706 people in 1,787 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Backlees, Ballynaglack, Creggan, Dunwiley, Liskeran, Meenavoy, Teevickmoy
- Placenames
- Lettermakenny 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.