Lettermullan, County Galway
The history of Lettermullan
The granite, the tower of 1804, and 587 people become 214. 3 moments, in order.
- Silurian and Ordovician times
The rock
The northern third is the Galway granite of the Caledonian orogeny; the rest is older marine sediment and basalt.
- 1804 to 1806
The signal station
One of the towers the British built along the coast to watch for invasion, very well preserved, near Golam Head.
- 1841 to 2022
587 to 214
The island had 587 people before the Famine, 626 in 1881, and 214 at the last census.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Lettermullen", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.