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The 3D model of Leitir Móir: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Leitir Móir, street by street

The great rough hillside, an island joined to the mainland by road, in two halves: Leitir Móir to the east and Leitir Calaidh to the west, and Irish the language of both.

Leitir Móir is a village of 542 people, 40 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 590 buildings stands on the map above, and 154 shops, cafés, schools, churches and services have a page each, with the street, the hours where recorded, the nearest bus stop and car park, and a plan of the streets around it. Everything comes from open map data and says so.

Today
Weather in Leitir Móir

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Leitir Móir

40 km from Galway, 14 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The church, the salt house, Teampall na Cille, the heritage centre.

Since 1841
The history of Leitir Móir

An island's population from 844 in 1841 to 542 in 2022.

Facts
About the town

Population 542 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Leitir Móir

1 pubs, 1 shops, 2 supermarkets, 1 doctors and 1 schools and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the church first.

Food and drink
Shops
Health
Services
Community
Things to see

All 20 kinds of place

Guides to Leitir Móir

All 1 guides
Islands
Ceantar na nOileán: Lettermore, Gorumna and Lettermullan

Ceantar na nOileán, the district of the islands, is the chain of Lettermore, Gorumna and Lettermullan joined to south Connemara by the…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Leitir Móir

1 café, restaurant, takeaway or pub on the map, 0 of them within 300 m of the church. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Tigh PhlunkettPubs

Pubs

Plan of Leitir Móir with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 1 streets

The map names 1 road here but records no shop on any of them yet.

Things to see around Leitir Móir

Lettermore , Cemetery .
Lettermore , Cemetery .
cisko66, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Leitir Móir (Lettermore) pub and garage We enquired whether there was a petrol station on the island. "Yes…
Leitir Móir (Lettermore) pub and garage We enquired whether there was a petrol station on the island. "Yes…
Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermore Church
Lettermore Church
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first and 2 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Loch BranLakes · 2.3 km
  2. Loch Ghleann TrasnaLakes · 2.6 km
  3. Loch TanLakes · 3.6 km
  4. Teach an tSalainnRuins · 3.6 km
  5. An LochánLakes · 3.7 km
  6. Loch na Tamhnaí MóireLakes · 3.9 km
  7. Loch na FeannóigeLakes · 3.9 km
  8. Loch an GhadaíLakes · 4.2 km
  9. Loch an TuairínLakes · 4.3 km

Holy wells · Beaches

Leitir Móir in pictures

Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Lettermore , Cemetery .
Lettermore , Cemetery .
cisko66, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Leitir Móir (Lettermore) pub and garage We enquired whether there was a petrol station on the island. "Yes…
Leitir Móir (Lettermore) pub and garage We enquired whether there was a petrol station on the island. "Yes…
Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermore Church
Lettermore Church
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
House with a view
House with a view
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Carrickalegaun Bridge.
County Galway, Carrickalegaun Bridge.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Carrickalegaun Bridge.
County Galway, Carrickalegaun Bridge.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Northern shores of Lettermore Island
Northern shores of Lettermore Island
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Inishbarra, view to the North
Inishbarra, view to the North
OJDingo33, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Leitir Móir?
Leitir Móir is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 40 km west of Galway city and 226 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Leitir Móir?
542 people at the 2022 census, up from 513 in 2016.
How far is Leitir Móir from Galway?
40 km in a straight line from the church to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Leitir Móir known for?
Being the first of the islands on the causeway road, Irish-speaking, with the Connemara Isles golf course.
What is the weather like in Leitir Móir today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

How the model is built

The buildings are OpenStreetMap footprints, read on 2026-09-18, stood up to the height the map records or a plain two storeys where it records none. Streets, water and the base map come from the same project through OpenFreeMap. Places are the named shops, services and public buildings on the map; each has its own page.

A building takes the colour of the kind of place inside it: restaurants in red, pharmacies in green, schools in yellow. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a missing fact is shown as missing, with a link to add it to the map. More about the model.