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

Lettermullan, street by street

The westernmost of the three islands at the end of the causeways, 250 acres of herring, cod and seaweed, with a Napoleonic signal tower at Golam Head and every soul on Crappagh and Furnish a native speaker.

Lettermullan is a village of 214 people, 45 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 536 buildings stands on the map above, and 84 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 Lettermullan

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Lettermullan

45 km from Galway, 16 km from Aeradróm Inis Mór, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The signal tower, the heritage centre, the church, the cemetery, Teampall na Cille.

Since silurian and ordovician times
The history of Lettermullan

The granite, the tower of 1804, and 587 people become 214.

Facts
About the town

Population 214 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Lettermullan

1 pubs, 1 schools, 1 gyms and sport, 5 churches and 50 parks and views and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the church first.

Food and drink
Community
Sport and leisure
Things to see

All 13 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Lettermullan

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 LeePubs

Pubs

Plan of Lettermullan 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 4 streets
  1. Caladh Ghólaim
    service road · 147 m
    1 place

Things to see around Lettermullan

Lettermullan beach
Lettermullan beach
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullan Church
Lettermullan Church
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullan shoreline
Lettermullan shoreline
Gordon Hatton, 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 3 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Ionad Oidhreachta Leitir MealláinMuseums · 165 m
  2. Loch Bhaile na CilleLakes · 2.0 km
  3. Loch an IolraLakes · 2.2 km
  4. Loch na gCeannLakes · 2.4 km
  5. Lough AwaalliaLakes · 2.7 km
  6. Loch an BhallaLakes · 2.9 km
  7. Loch an ChaolaighLakes · 2.9 km
  8. Túr Cheann GhólaimRuins · 2.9 km
  9. Loch na FeannóigeLakes · 3.4 km

Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches

Lettermullan in pictures

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

Lettermullan beach
Lettermullan beach
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullan Church
Lettermullan Church
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullan shoreline
Lettermullan shoreline
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullan school
Lettermullan school
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Séipéal Réalt na Mara.
County Galway, Séipéal Réalt na Mara.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lettermullen,Connemara,Co.Galway,Ireland
Lettermullen,Connemara,Co.Galway,Ireland
Angodowd, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Séipéal Réalt na Mara.
County Galway, Séipéal Réalt na Mara.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Lettermullan?
Lettermullan is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 45 km west of Galway city and 231 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Lettermullan?
214 people at the 2022 census, up from 204 in 2016.
How far is Lettermullan from Galway?
45 km in a straight line from the church to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Lettermullen known for?
The Golam Head signal tower, its heritage centre, the fisheries and seaweed, and its Irish; the playwright Antoine Ó Flatharta is from here.
What is the weather like in Lettermullan 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.