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County Galway

Letterfrack

Letterfrack is a village on the coast of Connemara in , with a population of about 200. In Irish Leitir means a rock-strewn hillside and fraic means speckled, referring to the bright quartzite rocks.
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  • Type: Village with 192 residents
  • Description: village in County Galway, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Letterfrac”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Diamond Hill and Kylemore Abbey.

Peak
Photo: Patrice78500, Public domain.
or Bengooria is an isolated peak overlooking the village of Letterfrack, in the northwest corner of the in Connemara National Park in , .

Museum
Photo: Textman, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a Benedictine Monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, , Ireland. The Abbey was founded for Benedictine nuns who fled Belgium in World War 1. is situated 4 km east of Letterfrack.

Park
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is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tully Cross.

Village
Photo: Lindy Buckley, CC BY 2.0.
is a small located on the Renvyle Peninsula in north-west , in , Ireland. It is actually situated in the townland of Gorteenclough. The village lies close to the sea and is on the Wild Atlantic Way coastal route. is situated 4 km north of Letterfrack.

Letterfrack

Latitude
53.5535° or 53° 33′ 13″ north
Longitude
-9.9483° or 9° 56′ 54″ west
Population
192
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
Open location code
9C5GH332+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52270346
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2962962
Wiki­data ID
Q1821184
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Letterfrack” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Letterfrack”
  • Cebuano: “Letterfrack”
  • Dutch: “Letterfrack”
  • French: “Letterfrack”
  • Georgian: “ლეტერფრაკი”
  • German: “Letterfrac”
  • German: “Letterfrack”
  • Irish: “Leitir Fraic”
  • Italian: “Letterfrack”
  • Japanese: “レターフラック”
  • Russian: “Леттерфрак”
  • Swedish: “Letterfrack”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Letterfrack”. Photo: Chalky Lives, CC BY-SA 2.0.