A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
Liatroim· Irish · main form · validated name
Leitrim· English · main form
Place & story
Two broad landscape settings
Leitrim County Council contrasts northern table mountains and glacial glens with southern drumlin lowlands. Lough Allen lies between these broad landscapes; the Shannon and woodlands around Lough Rinn add further variety.[4]
Road and river centres
Lewis’s 1837 accounts place Manorhamilton in a cattle-trading district on the Enniskillen–Sligo road. Carrick-on-Shannon combined the Dublin–Sligo road with river navigation.[2][3]
People & connections
Seán Mac Diarmada’s homeplace
The homeplace of Seán Mac Diarmada, one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, survives near Kiltyclogher. The Office of Public Works preserves the traditional cottage as a National Monument. Its domestic scale supplies a different perspective from the public documents and executions usually associated with the Rising: this was a family homestead before it became a commemorative place.[5]
Leitrim’s official tourism account locates the three-roomed thatched cottage in Corranmore, a few kilometres outside the village, with views towards Upper Lough MacNean. A separate exhibition occupies Kiltyclogher’s former courthouse. Mac Diarmada helped plan the Easter Rising and was executed at Kilmainham on 12 May 1916.[6]
Figures cover the whole county including its cities. CSO recommends this series for long-term comparison, although minor boundary changes have occurred.
View population figures
County Leitrim, including its cities — census population
Glencar Waterfall, County Leitrim illustration: based on a reference by Bob Embleton. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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