Leitrim, County Leitrim

This article is about the village in County Leitrim. For other uses, see Leitrim.

Leitrim Liatroim
Town
Leitrim Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°59′27″N 8°03′49″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Leitrim
Elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Population  (2011 )
• Urban	485
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	G958046

Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim) is a village in County Leitrim, Ireland.

Access and transport

It is located on the River Shannon at the junction of the R280 and R284 regional roads and is connected to the River Erne via the Shannon-Erne Waterway. Leitrim village is the gateway to the Shannon-Erne Waterway and boasts a jetty with excellent facilities for the cruising traffic which passes through. The village is just over 5 km from Carrick-on-Shannon and 155 km from Dublin.

Modern development

Leitrim village marina
May 2nd, 2010

Successive Finance Acts during the 1990s encouraged the building of hotels and holiday houses in designated deprived rural areas. The village was a large beneficiary of these tax incentives. The resultant explosive growth in the period between 2002 and 2007 saw several large complexes of self-catering apartments blocks being erected around the mariana which was itself funded by the International Fund for Ireland under the auspices of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It is a well kept village with an excellent record in the Tidy Towns competition, and it won the title once. Leitrim village is well situated as a base from which to explore the upper and County Leitrim.7

Education

• St Joseph's National School

Religion

• St Joseph's Catholic Church

Demographics

The village had 274 residents in 1834. By 2002 there were 618 residents, increasing to 1,033 residents by 2006.

History

From the Early modern period, County Leitrim is named after the village. Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centurys, numerous annual fairs were held at Leitrim village on- January 22, February 20, March 25, May 5, June 16, July 23, September 1 (or 3rd), October 13, and December 1. In 1925, Leitrim village comprised 30 houses with 5 being licensed to sell alcohol.

Liatroim was a strategically important ford of the River Shannon connecting Ulster and Connacht. The Irish Annals makes mention of Leitrim village (Template:Lang-ga) many times. In 1270 the Battle of Áth an Chip between Normans and Connacht probably occurred on Drumhierney townland beside Battle-bridge.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References and notes

Secondary sources

Historical

• Wright, G. N. (George Newenham) (1834). A new and comprehensive gazetteer (PDF). Vol. vol. IV. London, T. Kelly. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Longman (2011) [1819]. Traveller's New Guide Through Ireland, Containing a New and Accurate Description of the Roads (digitized from original in Lyon Public Library ed.). Longman. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• O'Clery, Lughaidh. The life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell (PDF). Dublin: Fallon and Co, 16 Lower Sackville Street. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Watsons (1830). The Gentleman's and citizen's almanack ... for the year (PDF). Dublin, Printed for S. Watson [etc.] {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Irish Free State (1925). Intoxicating Liquor Commission Report (Report). Vol. Reports of Committees. The Stationery Office. Retrieved 21 May 2017. {{cite report}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Irish annals

• O'Donovan, John, ed. (1856). Annála Rioghachta Éireann. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters ... with a Translation and Copious Notes. 7 vols. Translated by O'Donovan (2nd ed.). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. CELT editions. Full scans at Internet Archive: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3; Vol. 4; Vol. 5; Vol. 6; Indices.
• Bambury, Pádraig; Beechinor, Stephen (2000). "The Annals of Ulster" (Electronic edition compiled by the CELT Team (2000) ed.). CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Walsh, Paul (2012). "Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill". CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of the Department of History, University College, Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)