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Letterbreckaun

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Letterbreckaun (Irish: Binn Bhriocáin, meaning 'Brecan's peak') is one of the Maumturk Mountains of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. At 677 metres (2, 221 ft), it is the second-tallest of the Maumturks, the 129th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and 159th–highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list. Letterbreckaun is in the middle sector of the long north-west to south-east spine of the Maumturks.

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