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About Letterfrack

Letterfrack, Leitir Fraic in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 67 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the N59. The map gives it 344 buildings and 4 named streets, with 37 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 181 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 61th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
67 km north-west of Galway, 245 km from Dublin
Position
53.5535° N, 9.9483° W, 81 m above sea level
Roads
N59
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
344 buildings, 4 streets, 37 named places in 40 kinds
Connemara National Park Visitor Centre: path leading to the walks
Connemara National Park Visitor Centre: path leading to the walks·Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Industrial Schools, Letterfrack, Co. Galway (29017012765)
Industrial Schools, Letterfrack, Co. Galway (29017012765)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Letterfrack in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1818 to 1992. That is not a history of Letterfrack, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18181992Clifden CastleConnemara Heritage and History Centre
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

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 181 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59 running through Letterfrack.

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

1 school or college on the map: Letterfrack National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Letterfrack?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 67 km north-west of Galway and 245 km from Dublin, on the N59.
How big is Letterfrack?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 344 buildings, 4 named streets and 37 named places, which by building count makes it the 61th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Letterfrack?
181 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Connemara National Park Visitor Centre, Bunnaboghee Lough and Loughaunkinakit.
How do you get to Letterfrack?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Citylink.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
344
buildings on the model
4
named streets
37
named places
40
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 Q1821184). 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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