Breanletter
Breanletter is a townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 691295
- Area
- 98,253 m² (9.83 ha, 24.28 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
- Breanletter
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 245.6 ha
- 607 acres
- Land parcels
- 122
- registered freehold, median 9,877 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
122 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breanletter, from 152 m² to 148,113 m² (14.81 ha, 36.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Breanletter 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
22 Sept 2026N/a
Retention Permission for the following: 1. To retain 2 no. single storey domestic extensions. 2. To retain 1 no. velux window on the front elevation. 3. To retain an upgraded waste-water treatment facility which complies with current EPA COP regs. 4. To retain 1 no. single storey domestic garage and all ancillary works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660500
8 Jan 2026N/a
Retention Permission for the following: 1. To retain 2 no. single storey domestic extensions. 2. To retain 1 no. Velux window on the front elevation. 3. To retain an upgraded waste-water treatment facility which complies with current EPA COP regs. 4. To retain 1 no. single storey domestic garage and all ancillary works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660016
18 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for the following:1. To retain 2 no. single storey domestic extensions. 2. To retain 1 no. Velux window on the front elevation.3. To retain an upgraded waste-water treatment facility which complies with current EPA COP regs. 4. To retain 1 no. single storey domestic garage and all ancillary works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560597
24 Mar 2017Conditional
Planning permission for:- (a) Construction of extensions to the rear of existing dwelling house; (b) Construction of a new domestic garage; (c) Construction of new entrance wing walls and boundary walls along the public road and (d) Construction of temporary entrance onto the public road for construction traffic purposes during the proposed works with all associated site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17125
20 Mar 2017N/a
for (a) construction of extensions to the rear of existing dwelling house, (b) construction of a new domestic garage, (c) construction of new entrance wing walls & boundary walls along the public road and (d) construction of temporary entrance onto the public road for construction traffic purposes during the proposed works with all associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17114
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 Breanletter.
Recorded monuments
- RO004-040 Earthwork
Description
Marked as a circular feature (diam. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 20m) S-W on the 1914 ed. Situated on the steep NE-facing slope of Ballyfermoyle Hill. It is not now visible at ground level in scrub and rough pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Breanletter.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Breanletter, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Breanletter.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Breanletter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Breanletter
- Area
- 2,455,994 m² (245.6 ha, 606.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Ballyformoyle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 173 people lived in 72 households in the Ballyformoyle electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyformoyle, Derreenargan, Derreenavicara, Derrygirraun, Drumbrick, Drumlahard, Keadew East, Moyoran
- Placenames
- Breanletter 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.