Letter West

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letter West, from 64 m² to 262,802 m² (26.28 ha, 64.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Letter West 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.

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  Permission for Retention for 1(a) Additional floor area of 3m² to ground floor and 3m² to first floor at the south east of the house, 1(b) Fenestration changes to all elevations from that granted under Planning Permission Reference No. 09/1003 and 2. Detached domestic single storey boathouse with overhead terrace to north of dwelling house along with all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/175

• 3 Mar 2023Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house and for associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/115

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/267

• 16 Jul 2010Conditional

  Demolition of existing outbuilding, construction of new dwelling unit, installation of mini treatment plant system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/509

• 18 Jun 2010Incompleted application

  Demolition of existing outbuilding, construction of a new dwelling unit ancillary to main house, installation of mini treatment plant system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/425

• 10 Sept 2009Conditional

  (1) Demolish existing dwellinghouse and existing adjacent storage building, (2) Construct a new storey and a half dwellinghouse with attached domestic garage to rear, (3) Install a new proprietary treatment unit system along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/1003

• 16 Jan 2009Conditional

  Retention of conversion of farmhouse to 3no. separate short term let holiday homes to include (i) construction of extension to rear and side, (ii) fenestration changes to front (iii) internal layout changes, (iv) installation of common septic tank system and (v) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/23

• 12 Dec 2008Incompleted application

  Retention of conversion of farmhouse to 3no. seperate short term let holiday homes to include (i) construction of extensions to rear and side, (ii) fenestration changes to front, (iii) internal layout changes, (iv) installation of common septic tank system and (v) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2177

• 18 Dec 2003Conditional

  Extensions and change of use of dwellinghouse to Museum and Heritage Centre incorporating first floor and basement living accomodation and retention of existing extensions

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6542

• 28 Feb 2002Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse and renovations to existing dwelling for use as domestic garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/862

• 13 Apr 2000Refused

  Dormer dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2159

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: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
• Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102

Recorded monuments

• CO138-004 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture. Local traditon of children's burial ground here. Triangular area (max. L 17.9m; max. Wth 17.7m) enclosed by wall of loose stones (H 0.4m). Oval cairn to S (L 3m; Wth 2m; H 0.2m) and mound of earth and stone (diam. 1m) to NW may mark burials. No other grave markers noted. 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

• CO138-028 Burial ground
  Description

  On a S-facing slope, overgrown with briars and gorse bushes. According to local information, an irregular area (c. 25m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE), is known locally as the 'keel' and it was used as a burial ground. Some loose stones were noted on the surface, but any further examination was impossible due to the dense overgrowth. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Letter West, about 1 in 5 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 Letter West.

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.

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

Name

Letter West · Leitir Thiar

Area

472,665 m² (47.27 ha, 116.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Sheepshead, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 82 households in the Sheepshead electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyroon, Letter East, Letter Lower, Reagh

Placenames

Letter West 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.