Letterbrone

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Letterbrone, from 2,234 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 2,778,721 m² (277.87 ha, 686.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Letterbrone 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 Letterbrone 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Hoe Bog SAC 000633
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Hoe Bog 000633

Recorded monuments

• SL036-012 Linear earthwork
  Description

  In the Ox Mountains, SW of Lough Talt, adjoining the Sligo-Mayo border. A linear earthwork, named the 'Black Ditch' extends, in a SE direction, from the Sligo-Mayo border for a distance of 3km. It forms the townland boundary between Kilmacteige to the N and Letterbrone to the S. Two small lakes, Lough Nablaneybaun and Lough Hure, interrupt the earthwork at 1.45km and 2km, respectively, from the Mayo border. Condit and Gibbons (1991, 10) described the earthwork as a trackway with a raised bank on one side and suggest that it may have been an ancient droveway or a property division or frontier boundary. Although not indicated on the OS 6-inch map as continuing into Mayo, the earthwork 'is said locally to go towards Ballina [county Mayo]' (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-038 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In pasture on the slopes of the Ox Mountains and commanding an extensive outlook to the S and SW. An orthostat to the W and two alongside 2.5m to the E represent the S side (L 7m) of a WSW-facing gallery. A displaced stone lies against each of the latter two orthostats. Two orthostats of the N side of the gallery are in place, one opposite the gap in the southern side and the second 0.7m to the E. There is a displaced stone alongside the western of these two orthostats. It is clear that the gallery both narrowed and decreased in height from W to E. There are slight traces of a mound at the W end of the structure. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 73, no. 115) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL036-040001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pasture, on the southern slopes of the Ox Mountains. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 23m) enclosed by grass-covered foundations of a stone wall (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.1m). The interior is level. Remains of a field system (SL036-040002-) adjoin the cashel at NE, E and W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-040002 Field system
  Description

  In level upland pasture, adjacent to a cashel (SL036-040001-), on the southern slopes of the Ox Mountains. The adjoining fields to SW and SE of the cashel are under coniferous forest. The cashel is within a large rectangular field which overlaps or supersedes the remains of the walls shown radiating to W, NE and E from the perimeter of the cashel on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. These walls remain as moss-covered jumbles of stone (Wth c. 1.5m; H 0.3-0.5m) two of which, 15m apart, subdivide the NE end of the rectangular field. There are remains of similar walls nearby. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-063 Graveyard
  Description

  On a break of slope, on the lower S-facing slopes of the Ox Mountains. Indicated on the 1838 and 1914 OS 6-inch maps as a small rectangular enclosure (c. 20m NNE-SSW; c. 13m WNW-ESE). There are no visible remains of the graveyard. The area is planted with coniferous trees. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map, a small roughly square area (10m N-S; 10m E-W) defined by a broken line, abuts the N half of its WNW side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Letterbrone, 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 high, 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 Letterbrone.

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

Name

Letterbrone · Leitir Brón

Area

5,214,692 m² (521.47 ha, 1,288.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Aclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

233 people lived in 105 households in the Aclare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belclare, Cartron (Co. Mayo), Culdaly, Ellagh More (Co. Mayo), Graffy (Co. Mayo), Kilmacteige, Oughaval

Placenames

Letterbrone 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.