County Leitrim – Choose a Topic

County Leitrim, highlighted.

Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Leitrim’s past.

Vanishing Ireland (Leitrim people)

• John Abbott (1931-2017) – Farmer – Carrigallen
• Johnny Fyfe (farm manager / gardener, 1930-2012) Killegar
• Pat FitzPatrick (b. 1931, Farmer & Actor), Drumloona, Carrigallen
• Teresa McGerty (1925-2013) – Publican of Longfield
• Johnny Golden (mechanic and sexton, 1937-2010) Dogarry, Co Cavan

County Leitrim – Family Histories

• Campbell of Drumsna
• Cavanaugh of County Leitrim
• Clements, Earl of Leitrim
• Musgrave of Derrinasoo / Derranasoo

County Leitrim – Places

• Dromod
• Lough Rynn Castle, Mohill
• Roosky

People connected to County Leitrim

• William Francis de Vismes Kane (1840–1918) – A Gentleman Naturalist At Large
• ‘Bumper Jack’ – John McClintock (1743-1799)
• Margaret of New Orleans – The Mother of Orphans
• General Alick Godley of Killegar and the ANZACs of Gallipoli
• Michael Joseph Shanley (1930-2016) of Kilkea Castle

Articles with a Leitrim Connection

• The Glendale Bear and Mesolithic Leitrim
• An tSlí Mhór (The Great Way) and the Esker Riada
• A Short History of Irish Gold
• The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
• The Normans on the Irish Waterways
• Murder in Roscommon – The Assassination of the Rev. John Lloyd, 1847
• Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
• Waterways Through Time