Lettermullan

Lettermullen
Lettermullen ; Leitir Mealláin
	Village
	Location in Ireland
	Coordinates: 53°14′38″N 9°43′34″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Galway
Elevation	1 m (3 ft)
Population (2002)
• Rural	219
Irish Grid Reference	L848522

Lettermullen, (Irish: Leitir Mealláin, meaning "Mealláin's rough hillside" or possibly "the hill with the mill"), is a small island and village on the coast of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It is about 36 miles 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 connected to the mainland by the bridges and causeways of R374.[1]

Lettermullen is part of the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region) and Irish is the language most commonly spoken. Accordingly, its official name is Leitir Mealláin.[2]

Lettermullen is connected to the islands of Dinish, Furnish, Inisherk and An Crappagh.

A very well preserved Signal Station is situated near Golam Head. These stations were built all along the Irish coast in the first decade of the 19th century to monitor for maritime invasions.

Geology

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]

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1841	587	—
1851	383	−34.8%
1861	433	+13.1%
1871	497	+14.8%
1881	626	+26.0%
1891	549	−12.3%
1901	533	−2.9%
1911	460	−13.7%

Year	Pop.	±%
1926	346	−24.8%
1936	335	−3.2%
1946	329	−1.8%
1951	320	−2.7%
1956	315	−1.6%
1961	280	−11.1%
1966	245	−12.5%
1971	221	−9.8%

Year	Pop.	±%
1979	216	−2.3%
1981	218	+0.9%
1986	211	−3.2%
1991	196	−7.1%
1996	204	+4.1%
2002	219	+7.4%
2006	213	−2.7%

Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

Famous people born on Lettermullen

The Ethnography of Garumna and Lettermullen in the County Galway; 1899

Antoine Ó Flatharta (playwright and scriptwriter)

References

Robinson, Tim (1985). Mapping South Connemara. Folding Landscapes. ISBN 978-0950400235.
"Leitir Mealláin/Lettermullan Island". Logainm.ie. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
Holland, C. H. (Charles Hepworth) Sanders, Ian. (2009). The geology of Ireland. Dunedin Academic. ISBN 978-1-903544-49-5. OCLC 679356088.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

http://www.udaras.ie/en/faoin-udaras/foilseachain/tuarascalacha-bliantula-agus-raitis#2012 Annual Reports and Statements - Údarás Gaeltacht
https://web.archive.org/web/20131203012132/http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Education/The_Irish_Headhunter_catalogue.pdf

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[1] Robinson, Tim (1985). Mapping South Connemara. Folding Landscapes. ISBN 978-0950400235.

[2] "Leitir Mealláin/Lettermullan Island". Logainm.ie. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

[3] Holland, C. H. (Charles Hepworth) Sanders, Ian. (2009). The geology of Ireland. Dunedin Academic. ISBN 978-1-903544-49-5. OCLC 679356088.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)