Lettermullen
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Lettermullen
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
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Lettermullen, (Template:Langx, meaning 'Mealláin's rough hillside' or possibly "the hill with the mill"), is a small island and village on the coast of southern Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It is about Template:Cvt west of Galway city, at the far western end of Galway Bay, Lettermullen is the westernmost of three islands; Lettermullen, Gorumna and Lettermore, along with smaller islands collectively known as Ceantar na nOileán ("District of the Islands") connected to the mainland by the bridges and causeways of the R374 road.[2]
Geography and geology
Lettermullen is in the parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, and province of Connacht. It forms one side of Kiegall Bay, and its northern end is part of the shore of Casheen Bay. The island comprises about 100 hectares (250 acres) of arable and pasture land. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in herring and cod fisheries and in the collection of seaweed for manure. Lettermullen is connected to the islands of Dinish (Template:Langx), Furnish (Template:Langx), Inisherk (Template:Langx), and Crappagh (Template:Langx).
The northern third of Lettermullan is composed of the same intrusive Devonian-aged granite underlying most of Galway that formed from crustal melting as a result of the Caledonian Orogeny in the late Silurian. The remainder of the island is made up of Ordovician-aged bedrock of sedimentary marine rocks and basalt.[3]
Culture
Lettermullen is part of the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region of Ireland) and Irish is the most common spoken language. Accordingly, its official name is Leitir Mealláin.[4] The orbiting islands of Crappagh (Template:Langx) and Furnish (Template:Langx) are particularly pure areas regarding usage of the Irish language, as all residents are native speakers.
Landmarks
A very well preserved Signal Station is situated near Golam Head. These stations were built all along the Irish coast by the British from 1804 to 1806 to monitor for maritime invasions.
A picturesque cemetery, Reilig Duigill, lies just south of the R374 road immediately after crossing the bridge from Gorumna. Down the road, the central village houses a national school (Scoil Náisiúnta Leitir Mealláin), the island's only church (Séipéal Réalt na Mara), the Lettermullen Heritage Centre (Ionad Oidhreachta Leitir Mealláin), and a summer college, as well as a small café, called Caifé na Feamainne (The Seaweed Café).
Demographics
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| Source: Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable people
- Antoine Ó Flatharta (playwright and scriptwriter)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Population of Inhabited Islands Off the Coast (Report). Central Statistics Office. 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robinson, Tim (1985). Mapping South Connemara. Folding Landscapes. ISBN 978-0950400235.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Holland, C. H. (Charles Hepworth) Sanders, Ian. (2009). The geology of Ireland. Dunedin Academic. ISBN 978-1-903544-49-5. OCLC 679356088.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leitir Mealláin/Lettermullan Island". Logainm.ie. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
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