Leitir Móir
Lettermore is a Gaeltacht village in County Galway, Ireland. It is also the name of the island, linked by road to the mainland, on which the village sits.Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 528 residents
- Description: village in Connacht, Ireland
- Also known as: “Lettermore”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Inchamakinna.
Inchamakinna
Islet
Inchamakinna is an island in County Galway, Ireland. Inchamakinna is situated 2½ km southeast of Leitir Móir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bealadangan and Carraroe.
Bealadangan
Village
Béal an Daingin or Béal a' Daingin is a small Gaeltacht village in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The primary spoken language is Irish, and all but a few of the elderly population also speak English. Bealadangan is situated 3½ km northeast of Leitir Móir.
Carraroe
Photo: Carraroe1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carraroe is a tiny village which is nevertheless the largest settlement on the Carraroe / Cheathrú Rua Peninsula of Connemara in County Galway. It has a population of 725 people, and has one of the highest percentages of Irish speakers in the country, at 78%.
Kilkieran
Village
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cill Chiaráin is a coastal village in the Connemara area of County Galway in Ireland. The R340 passes through Cill Chiaráin. Cill Chiaráin lies in a Gaeltacht region, and Coláiste Sheosaimh hosts Irish language courses within the village. Kilkieran is situated 7 km northwest of Leitir Móir.
Leitir Móir
- Categories: Gaeltacht, human settlement, and locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.2893° or 53° 17′ 22″ northLongitude
-9.65564° or 9° 39′ 20″ westPopulation
528Open location code
9C5G78QV+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2035469858OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q2588739
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Leitir Móir” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Leitir Móir”
- Basque: “Lettermore”
- Breton: “Leitir Móir”
- Breton: “Lettermore”
- Bulgarian: “Летерморе”
- Catalan: “Leitir Móir”
- Cebuano: “Lettermore”
- Dutch: “Leitir Moir”
- Dutch: “Leitir Móir”
- Dutch: “Lettermore”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Leitir Mór”
- Georgian: “ლეტერმორი”
- Irish: “Leitir Móir”
- Japanese: “レターモア”
- Russian: “Леттермор”
- Turkish: “Lettermore”
- “Leitir Móir”
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Highlights include Lettermore Garda Station and Saint Maria and Saint Columban.
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