Lettreen

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lettreen, from 280 m² to 88,477 m² (8.85 ha, 21.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Lettreen 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 Lettreen 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 Lettreen.

Recorded monuments

• RO023-116 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) with some bushes NW-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-1.1m) elsewhere, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 4.7-5m; Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; D 0.2-0.9m), with a slight outer bank (Wth 2.7m; H 0.3m) WSW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-117001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of a W-facing slope of the NW-SE ridge of Mullaghcreigha Hill. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 37.4m E-W; 34.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m; at N: Wth 7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) which merges into a scarp down to the interior (H 0.8m) at W. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A hut-site (RO023-117002-) (diam. 4.9m N-S; 4.9m E-W; 3.2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-3.2m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) with some internal facing-stones and an entrance (Wth 0.8m) at SE is just N of the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-117002 Hut site
  Description

  At the crest of a W-facing slope, and just N of the centre of rath (RO023-117001-). Circular area (diam. 4.9m N-S; 4.9m E-W; 3.2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-3.2m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) with some internal facing-stones and an entrance (Wth 0.8m) at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-118 Church
  Description

  On a shelf at the top of the SW-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. Described as a functioning Roman Catholic church on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The church is a rectangular overgrown area (int. dims 10.2m NW-SE; 4.4m NE-SW) in Letreen townland defined by a field wall and townland boundary with Kiltrustan at NE and the grass-covered fragments of the SE (Wth 1.2m; H 0.3-0.7m; L 3m) and SW (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m; L 2m) walls. The church is towards the S end of a D-shaped enclosure (max. dims c. 100m N-S; c. 55m E-W) defined by a bank and outer fosse that is only evident as a feature on a Lidar image (Davis 2015, 174, No. 66:2). There is no evidence of burial, and the church is skirted by a NE-SW farm lane approaching from the SW that turns SE just N of the structure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 4 February 2016

• RO023-120 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Lettreen Well in italic lettering on both, and situated on a gentle SW-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. Circular well (diam. 0.9m) defined by a masonry wall (T 0.5m; ext. H 0.5m; int. H 1m) with an opening (Wth 0.6m) and two steps at NE. It is traditionally associated with St Patrick (Gormley 1989, 62), but there is no evidence of veneration. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) incorporated into the townland boundary with Doughloon SE-SW on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture, apart from a curve in the drystone wall and hedge boundary SE-SW. The perimeter is visible as a slight feature on a Lidar image (Davis 2015, 172, No. 65:7), completing the circuit SW-W-NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-220 Field system
  Description

  First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located on a SW-facing slope. An area of about 4.5 ha (c. 11 acres) contains field banks of a regular form (Wth 2-2.7m; H 0.2-0.35m) with no accompanying ditches. The banks form small, rectangular or irregularly-shaped fields or paddocks (dims c. 30m x 10m to c. 70m x 30m) with no evidence of lazy-bed cultivation. There is one possible house (dims 14m NE-SW; c. 5m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks at the centre of a cluster of smaller paddocks towards the SE end of the fields, and there may be shallow quarrying at the N end of the area. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 August, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Lettreen.

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

Name

Lettreen

Area

630,224 m² (63.02 ha, 155.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltrustan, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cregga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cregga electoral division: 166 people in 59 households; 98% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corskeagh, Curry, Doon, Doonard Beg, Doonard More, Doughloon, Kiltrustan, Tullen

Placenames

Lettreen 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.