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About Lettermacaward

Lettermacaward, Leitir Mhic an Bhaird in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 181 km north of Galway. The map gives it 497 buildings and 0 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 225 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 69th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
181 km north of Galway, 214 km from Dublin
Position
54.8481° N, 8.3164° W, 78 m above sea level
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
497 buildings, 0 streets, 14 named places in 12 kinds
Gweebarra River
Gweebarra River·Z thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gweebarra River
Gweebarra River·Z thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Donegal since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

296,448108,344167,08418412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 225 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Lettermacaward; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Lettermacaward?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 181 km north of Galway and 214 km from Dublin.
How big is Lettermacaward?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 497 buildings, 0 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 69th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Lettermacaward?
225 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toome Lough, Toome Lough and Roosky Lough.
How do you get to Lettermacaward?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
497
buildings on the model
0
named streets
14
named places
12
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q3596080). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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