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

Letterfrack, street by street

A village Quakers founded in the Famine at the head of Ballinakill harbour, the gate of Connemara National Park, and the site of one of the oldest Marconi stations still standing.

Letterfrack is a village of County Galway, 67 km north-west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 344 buildings stands on the map above, and 210 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 Letterfrack

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Letterfrack

67 km from Galway, 48 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The national park, St Joseph's, the Marconi building, Ellis House, Kylemore.

Since 1849
The history of Letterfrack

The Ellises, the mission, the industrial school, Marconi, Butler's church, the college.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Letterfrack

8 restaurants, 1 pubs, 4 shops, 1 hairdressers and beauty and 1 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the crossroads first.

Food and drink
Shops
Services
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see
Other

All 40 kinds of place

Guides to Letterfrack

All 7 guides
The Abbey of Kylemore, Ireland
Abbey
Kylemore Abbey

Kylemore Abbey is the Benedictine monastery in a Connemara castle built in 1868 for Mitchell Henry: 70 rooms of Dalkey granite and…

Twelve Bens in Connemara Ireland
Park
Connemara National Park

Connemara National Park at Letterfrack, opened in 1980, covers 2,000 hectares of mountain, blanket bog, heath and woodland that was once…

Boats and mountains, Roundstone
Mountains
The Twelve Bens

The Twelve Bens, Na Beanna Beola, are the quartzite peaks of Connemara National Park: Benbaun at 729 m the highest, 22 summits in the…

Twelve Bens summits of Bencorr and Benncorr North Top, and also showing Bencorr's two easterly spurs, from Lough Inagh. Mountain in the far background is Benba
Lake
Lough Inagh

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…

Former St. Joseph's Industrial School for boys of the Christian Brothers, built in 1886–1887 after the designs by the architect William Hague (1836–1899). The s
History
St Joseph's Industrial School, Letterfrack

St Joseph's Industrial School at Letterfrack, built in 1886 and 1887 to William Hague's design and run by the Christian Brothers until…

Mountain
Benbaun

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…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Letterfrack

9 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 7 of them within 300 m of the crossroads. 3 have hours on record.

  1. Cloverfox, Bar and RestaurantRestaurants
  2. Molly’s BarPubs
  3. Pizza MaxTakeaways
  4. Veldon’s SeafarerRestaurants
  5. Kabo CoffeeCafés
  6. Courtyard café & restaurantCafés
  7. LodgeRestaurants
  8. Hungry Hiker CafeCafés

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Letterfrack 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 3 streets
  1. Heather Hills
    service road · 197 m
    1 place

Things to see around Letterfrack

Letterfrack, Connemara - Ireland
Letterfrack, Connemara - Ireland
Chalky Lives, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
AV Theatre, Connemara National Park Visitor Centre
AV Theatre, Connemara National Park Visitor Centre
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kylemore Abbey near Letterfrack in County Galway
Kylemore Abbey near Letterfrack in County Galway
Roger D Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 2 ringforts and ancient sites and 4 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Connemara National Park Visitor CentreAttractions · 341 m
  2. Bunnaboghee LoughLakes · 988 m
  3. LoughaunkinakitLakes · 1.2 km
  4. LoughaunnahoonshyLakes · 1.7 km
  5. Kylemore Victorian Walled GardenParks · 2.9 km
  6. Lough ToutherLakes · 3.2 km
  7. Lough NagilkyLakes · 3.4 km
  8. Lough MaladrolaunLakes · 3.5 km
  9. Lough NagurogeLakes · 3.5 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Letterfrack in pictures

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

Letterfrack, Connemara - Ireland
Letterfrack, Connemara - Ireland
Chalky Lives, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
AV Theatre, Connemara National Park Visitor Centre
AV Theatre, Connemara National Park Visitor Centre
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kylemore Abbey near Letterfrack in County Galway
Kylemore Abbey near Letterfrack in County Galway
Roger D Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Quay at Keelkyle on Barnaderg Bay, west of Letterfrack
Quay at Keelkyle on Barnaderg Bay, west of Letterfrack
Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Connemara National Park Visitor Centre: on the winding approach road, with spring-cleared bank and gorse
Connemara National Park Visitor Centre: on the winding approach road, with spring-cleared bank and gorse
Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Connemara National Park Visitor Centre: path leading to the walks
Connemara National Park Visitor Centre: path leading to the walks
Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Abbey of Kylemore, Ireland
The Abbey of Kylemore, Ireland
Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Letterfrack?
Letterfrack is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 67 km north-west of Galway city and 245 km west of Dublin.
How far is Letterfrack from Galway?
67 km in a straight line from the crossroads to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Letterfrack known for?
Connemara National Park and Diamond Hill, its Quaker founding, the Marconi station, the furniture college, and the history of St Joseph's Industrial School.
What is the weather like in Letterfrack 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.