placenamesLeitrim
Liatroim
Lewis distinguished available rock from the material actually quarried in a parish crossing the Cork–Waterford boundary.
Recorded locationLeitrim52.17032° N · 8.16252° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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 worked stone of the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description covers Leitrim parish chiefly in Cork but extending into Waterford, north of the Blackwater on the Fermoy–Lismore road. He recorded limestone, brownstone and slate, but stated that only the limestone was quarried, for agricultural purposes. His account identifies the riverbank land as the best part of a parish with otherwise variable soils. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.17032, -8.16252
- Mapped area
- 23.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 645 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leitrim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leitrim, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.