Guides to Letterfrack
7 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
Kylemore Abbey is the Benedictine monastery in a Connemara castle built in 1868 for Mitchell Henry: 70 rooms of Dalkey granite and Ballinasloe…
Connemara National Park at Letterfrack, opened in 1980, covers 2,000 hectares of mountain, blanket bog, heath and woodland that was once Kylemore…
The Twelve Bens, Na Beanna Beola, are the quartzite peaks of Connemara National Park: Benbaun at 729 m the highest, 22 summits in the core massif,…
Lough Inagh, Loch Eidhneach, lies in the Inagh Valley on the R344 about 23 km east of Clifden, with Derryclare and Bencorr of the Twelve Bens…
St Joseph's Industrial School at Letterfrack, built in 1886 and 1887 to William Hague's design and run by the Christian Brothers until it closed…
Benbaun, Binn Bhán, the white peak, is the highest of the Twelve Bens and the county top of Galway at 729 metres, the 72nd highest peak in Ireland…
Letterfrack, Leitir Fraic, at the head of Ballinakill harbour 15 km north-east of Clifden, was founded in the Famine by James and Mary Ellis,…