placenamesLetterfrack
Leitir Fraic
Connemara West’s purchase of the former industrial school and the national school’s changing classrooms trace later chapters in Letterfrack’s history.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Leitir Fraic · Irish · main form · validated name
- Letterfrack · English · main form
Place & story
The community buys the buildings
Connemara West finalised its purchase of the former Letterfrack Industrial School in October 1978, after the institution had closed in 1974. Local share subscriptions, loans from three families and a donation from the Guinness Workers’ Educational Fund helped raise the £21,000 purchase price. A Woodskills programme began in 1983; a partnership with Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology followed in 1987 and developed into the Furniture College. [2]
Classrooms beyond the schoolhouse
Letterfrack National School began in a small house at Dawros on 1 November 1866 and moved to its later building in 1965. When a third teacher joined in the early 1970s, the village courthouse temporarily supplied classroom space. Later additions expanded the school, and work in 2010 connected a separate rear classroom with the main building. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill
- Within
- Letterfrack
- Coordinates
- 53.55580, -9.96192 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413597 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Letterfrack. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History: Letterfrack Industrial School purchase and furniture education · Connemara West
- About Us: Letterfrack National School · Letterfrack National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.