Old Monastery Hostel

Old Monastery Hostel is a hostel in County Galway, Connacht. Old Monastery Hostel is situated nearby to St. Joseph’s Church, Letterfrack, as well as near Saint Joseph’s Cemetery.

Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Joseph’s Church, Letterfrack and Diamond Hill.

St. Joseph’s Church, Letterfrack

Church

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Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Diamond Hill

Peak

Photo: Patrice78500, Public domain.

Diamond Hill or Bengooria is an isolated peak overlooking the village of Letterfrack, in the northwest corner of the Twelve Bens in Connemara National Park in County Galway, Ireland.

Kylemore Abbey is a Benedictine Monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The Abbey was founded for Benedictine nuns who fled Belgium in World War 1. Kylemore Abbey is situated 4 km east of Old Monastery Hostel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Letterfrack and Tully Cross.

Letterfrack

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Photo: Chalky Lives, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Letterfrack is a village on the coast of Connemara in County Galway, with a population of about 200. In Irish Leitir means a rock-strewn hillside and fraic means speckled, referring to the bright quartzite rocks.

Tully Cross

Village

Photo: Lindy Buckley, CC BY 2.0.

Tully Cross is a small village located on the Renvyle Peninsula in north-west Connemara, in County Galway, 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. Tully Cross is situated 4 km north of Old Monastery Hostel.

Clifden

Photo: Bert Kaufmann, Public domain.

Clifden is a small town on the northwest coast of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It grew up as a harbour and market town, then after the Famine became a coast resort with its present Victorian architecture.

Old Monastery Hostel

Type: Hostel
Description: former meeting house and monastery of the Christian Brothers, now used as a hostel in Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland
Categories: monastery, meeting house, building, tourism, commercial building, and accommodation
Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.55199° or 53° 33′ 7″ north

Longitude

-9.94599° or 9° 56′ 46″ west

Wheelchair access

Open location code

9C5GH323+QJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 243773683

OpenStreetMap feature

building=commercial

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=hostel

Wikidata ID

Q60461787

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