Letter

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letter, from 84 m² to 242,267 m² (24.23 ha, 59.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 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.

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561613

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560911

• 26 Feb 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 3 BAY AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560262

• 27 Feb 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 1 STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH DEVELOPED ATTIC SPACE, PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460235

• 13 Feb 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 1 ½ STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460146

• 22 Dec 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ONE AND A HALF STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352022

• 21 Mar 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250494

• 22 Jul 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151472

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  RELOCATION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PARLOUR WITH HANDLING FACILITIES AND INCREASING SIZE TO ABUT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED SLATTED AGRICULTURAL CUBICAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS UNDER PLANNING REF: 20/51382

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150837

• 20 Apr 2021N/a

  RELOCATION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED MILKING PALOUR WITH HANDLING FACILITIES AND INCREASE SIZE TO ABUT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED SLATTED AGRICULTURAL CUBICAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS UNDER PLANNING REF NO 20/51382

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150698

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150287

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL CUBICAL SHED ABUTTING EXISTING SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A MILKING PALOUR WITH HANDING FACILITIES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051382

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 Letter.

Recorded monuments

• DG038-017 Standing stone
  Description

  The 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map mark a 'Standing Stone' here. The 3rd edition marks it as a 'Standing Stone (site of)'. A little to the NW there is a stone, 1.5m high which may have been removed from the position marked, and re-erected as a gate post. Situated on pasture land rising to the N. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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

At the centre of the townland of Letter, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2015 (ZIP).

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

Name

Letter

Area

2,497,118 m² (249.71 ha, 617.05 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Fahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 546 households in the Fahan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaslee, Ballynahone, Carrontlieve, Castlequarter, Craigtown, Crislaghkeel, Glebe Large

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.