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Letterfrack
Letterfrack or Letterfrac () is a small village in the Connemara area of County Galway, Ireland. It was founded by Quakers in the mid-19th century. The village is north-east of Clifden on Barnaderg Bay and lies at the head of Ballinakill harbour. Letterfrack contains the visitors centre for Connemara National Park.
==Quaker Famine Relief==
James and Mary Ellis, a Quaker couple from Bradford in England, moved to Letterfrack, during the Great Famine, Ellis becoming the resident landlord in Letterfrack in 1849.〔(Tánaiste Launches Joan Johnson’s book James & Mary Ellis Background and Quaker Famine Relief in Letterfrack ) Dept. of Trade and Innovation, Monday 31 July 2000〕 As Quakers the Ellises wanted to help with the post-Famine relief effort. They leased nearly of rough land and set about reclaiming it, farming it and planting it with woodland.〔''James & Mary Ellis Background and Quaker Famine Relief in Letterfrack'', by Joan Johnson, Historical Committee of the Society of Friends in Ireland , Dublin 2000.〕 They built a schoolhouse, housing for tradesmen, a shop, a dispensary, and a temperance hotel.〔(Living, working and playing in the glow of Diamond Mountain and the shadow of cruelty ) Irish Times, Wednesday, 18 August 2010.〕 In 1857 the property was sold to John Hall, a staunch Protestant and supporter of the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics. The ICM used the building with the aim of converting Catholics to Protestantism. After 25 years without much success, Hall sold it in 1882, under the impression he was selling it to a Protestant buyer, for £3000 for .〔(History of Education Letterfrack by Dr. Tony Lyons. )〕
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