placenamesLeitrim
Liatroim
Leitrim’s nineteenth-century church and the long-established Liatroim Fontenoys club connect this County Down village with architecture, sporting achievement and local leadership.
The name
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
The church of the Immaculate Conception
Timothy Hevey designed Leitrim’s Catholic church for the Reverend Arthur Finnegan of Upper Drumgooland parish. Its foundation stone was laid on 8 June 1871 and the building was dedicated on 2 August 1874. O’Flynn and Mackin carried out construction, while C. W. Harrison of Dublin supplied carving and altars. The spire was added in 1874. These recorded contributions identify the architect, builders and craftsmen behind a principal village landmark. [2]
Liatroim Fontenoys
Liatroim Fontenoys dates its foundation to 1888 and has its grounds on Backaderry Road at Leitrim. A major hurling success came in December 2022, when it became the first Down club to win the Ulster intermediate championship. The team beat Middletown of Armagh at Corrigan Park by 2–20 to 0–20. Goals from Conor McCrickard and P. J. Davidson helped secure the victory, while captain Pearse Óg McCrickard scored twelve points. [3] [4]
Maureen O’Higgins
Liatroim Fontenoys member Maureen O’Higgins became Down GAA’s first female chairperson at its convention on 16 December 2024. Her election followed five years as vice-chairperson and earlier work as county development officer and an Ulster Council member. She had also won All-Ireland honours in camogie with club and county. Down GAA noted that she was the second chairperson from the Fontenoys, following Charlie Keown, linking her achievement with an established local contribution to county administration. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Lower Half
- Civil parish
- Drumgooland
- Within
- Leitrim
- Coordinates
- 54.28317, -6.00367 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413251 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leitrim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leitrim, County Down: Church of Saint Mary Immaculate, work 7960 · Dictionary of Irish Architects, Irish Architectural Archive
- Liatroim Fontenoys: foundation and grounds · Liatroim Fontenoys
- Ulster intermediate hurling glory for Liatroim Fontenoys, 5 December 2022 · Michael Devlin, Ulster GAA
- Down county convention, December 2024 · Down GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.