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About Leitir Móir

Leitir Móir is a village in County Galway, 40 km west of Galway, with 528 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R374. The map gives it 590 buildings and 1 named street, with 12 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 144 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
528 at the 2006 census
Where
40 km west of Galway, 226 km from Dublin
Position
53.2893° N, 9.6556° W, 1 m above sea level
Roads
R374
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
590 buildings, 1 street, 12 named places in 20 kinds
Lettermore Church
Lettermore Church·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
House with a view
House with a view·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Population of Leitir Móir at each census

89049752884418412006

Census counts recorded on Wikidata for Leitir Móir (item Q2588739).

County Galway 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.

440,198148,340277,73718412022

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 144 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R374 running through Leitir Móir.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Colmcille.

Questions people ask

Where is Leitir Móir?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 40 km west of Galway and 226 km from Dublin, on the R374.
How big is Leitir Móir?
528 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 590 buildings and 1 named street.
What is there to see in Leitir Móir?
144 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cnoc Leitir Móir, Loch Bran and Loch Ghleann Trasna.
How do you get to Leitir Móir?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
590
buildings on the model
1
named streets
12
named places
20
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 Q2588739). 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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