Letterbrickaun
Letterbreckaun is one of the Maumturk Mountains of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. At 677 metres, it is the second-tallest of the Maumturks, the 129th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and 159th–highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dr Wotsit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 667 metres
- Description: mountain in Galway, Ireland
- Also known as: “Binn Bhriocain” and “Letterbreckaun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Knocknahillion and Binn idir an dá Log.
Knocknahillion
Peak
Photo: Britishfinance, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knocknahillion is one of the Maumturk Mountains of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. At 607 metres, it is the 210th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and 256th–highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list.
Binn idir an dá Log
Peak
Photo: Britishfinance, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Binn idir an Dá Log, sometimes anglicized Benadolug, at 702 metres, is the highest of the Maumturk Mountains in Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It is at the middle of the long north-west to south-east central spine of the range.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leenane and Recess.
Leenane
Photo: El Comandante, Public domain.
Leenane or Leenaun is a village on the south shore of Killary fjord in County Galway, with a population of about 200. That fjord is the county boundary: the north shore and the little settlements of Aaleagh and Clog lie in County Mayo, but it's convenient to describe them here.
Recess
Village
Recess is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Its official name is in Irish, Sraith Saileach, and translates as "stream of the willow tree". A notable former resident was Seán Lester, the last Secretary General of the League of Nations, who lived there… Recess is situated 7 km south of Letterbrickaun.
Letterbrickaun
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.53338° or 53° 32′ 0″ northLongitude
-9.72562° or 9° 43′ 32″ westElevation
667 metres (2,188 feet)Open location code
9C5GG7MF+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 332372651OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Letterbrickaun” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Letterbrickaun”
- Dutch: “Letterbreckaun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ليتيربريكاون”
- Irish: “Binn Bhriocáin”
- Irish: “Leitir Bhriocáin”
- Irish: “Leitir Brecáin”
- Ladin: “Letterbreckaun”
- Swedish: “Letterbrickaun”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Letterbrickaun”. Photo: Dr Wotsit, CC BY-SA 3.0.