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About Lettermullan

Lettermullan, Leitir Mealláin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 45 km west of Galway. It stands on the R374. The map gives it 536 buildings and 4 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 42th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
45 km west of Galway, 231 km from Dublin
Position
53.2426° N, 9.7299° W
Roads
R374
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
536 buildings, 4 streets, 7 named places in 13 kinds
Lettermullan Church
Lettermullan Church·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullan beach
Lettermullan beach·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R374 running through Lettermullan.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Leitir Mealláin.

Questions people ask

Where is Lettermullan?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 45 km west of Galway and 231 km from Dublin, on the R374.
How big is Lettermullan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 536 buildings, 4 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 42th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Lettermullan?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ionad Oidhreachta Leitir Mealláin, Cnoc Fionn and Loch Bhaile na Cille.
How do you get to Lettermullan?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
536
buildings on the model
4
named streets
7
named places
13
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. 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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