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	County Leitrim, Ireland; Ireland Genealogy Project
		The county is in the Connaught Circuit: the assizes and general quarter sessions are held at Carrick-on-Shannon; quarter sessions are held also at Manor-Hamilton and Ballinamore.
		The form of the county is somewhat pyramidal, or approaching to that of a slender cone, having its base resting on Longford, and its apex on the sea coast: its extreme length is about 46 miles; its breadth varies from 16 at the former extremity to 2 at the latter.
		Leitrim, generally, is not a feeding county like Roscommon, yet there are some excellent farms on which great numbers of cattle are annually fed, principally for the Dublin or English markets.
	www.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~irllet/index.htm (3038 words)

	Leitrim (County) - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Leitrim is a county in the North West of Ireland.
		Leitrim is part of the province Connaught and has the smallest population of anywhere in the world, including the internal city of Bill Murray.
		In early Leitrim, heterosexuality was illegal and the population dwindled to 33.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Leitrim (339 words)

	Irish People and Ireland - Irish news, events in Ireland, Irish culture, genealogy, music, Ireland travel
		County Leitrim is partly in the Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and partly in the Diocese of Kilmore.
		In the Church of Ireland arrangement, County Leitrim lies partly in the Diocese of Ardagh and partly in the Diocese of Kilmore.
		County Leitrim estate papers may be found in the NLI, National Archives, Leitrim County Library [Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim; Tel: (078) 44012/44424; Fax: (078) 44425], PRONI, Trinity College Dublin [College Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; http://www.tcd.ie/ ]; in other repositories in Ireland and the United Kingdom; and some still remaining in the private custody of families.
	www.irishabroad.com /yourroots/expert/countyleitrimresearch.asp (1068 words)

	County Leitrim, Ireland; Ireland Genealogy Projects Project
		The county is in the Connaught Circuit: the assizes and general quarter sessions are held at Carrick-on-Shannon; quarter sessions are held also at Manor-Hamilton and Ballinamore.
		The form of the county is somewhat pyramidal, or approaching to that of a slender cone, having its base resting on Longford, and its apex on the sea coast: its extreme length is about 46 miles; its breadth varies from 16 at the former extremity to 2 at the latter.
		Leitrim, generally, is not a feeding county like Roscommon, yet there are some excellent farms on which great numbers of cattle are annually fed, principally for the Dublin or English markets.
	www.rootsweb.com /~irllet/index.htm (3038 words)

	Leitrim self catering cottages in Leitrim Ireland.
		County Leitrim extends for over 50 miles from the County Longford border to Donegal Bay, where it has a coastline of two and a half miles.
		Leitrim is a county of fine lake and mountain scenery and boasts good angling waters with many attractions for the climber, walker and cyclist.
		Wherever you are in the county, you are sure of a genuine welcome and perhaps an invitation to join in the music, song and dance, so characteristic of the area.
	www.selfcateringreservations.com /leitrim.htm (161 words)

	The History of leitrim
		Large portions of the county were confiscated from their owners in 1620 and given to English adventurers, including Villiers and Hamilton, who founded the town of Manorhamilton.
		County Leitrim is hilly, ranging from shaggy brown hills to lofty mountains, and with deep valleys.
		The soil of Co. Leitrim is exceptionally retentive of water which accounts, with its many lakes, for a standard joke that land in the county is sold by the gallon rather than by the acre.
	www.leitrimtourism.com /history.cfm (464 words)

	Leitrim.ie Home Page
		The Leitrim County Childcare Committee was established in 2001 and is composed of representatives of the key stakeholders in childcare in the County.
		The formation of the committee came after five years of intense development activity in the childcare sector in the county and is part of a nationwide framework to promote a strategic approach to childcare development.
		County Leitrim is a rural county, with a very low population density, having experienced sustained population decline over the past century.
	www.leitrim.ie /Community/childcare.htm (281 words)

	Irish Ancestors /Co. Leitrim
		In the Gaelic divisions which preceded the seventeenth century, most of Leitrim, along with Cavan, was part of the kingdom of Bréifne.
		Geographically, the north and south of the county are quite distinct, with wet lowlands to the south and a series of plateaus in the north.
		Leitrim today is a sparsely populated region of bogs, hills and lakes, with a lonely beauty all its own.
	www.ireland.com /ancestor/browse/counties/connacht/index_le.htm (147 words)

	Hotels, Hostels, Bed and Breakfasts, Guesthouses, Farmhouses and Self Catering Accommodation in Leitrim Ireland
		County Leitrim extends for over 50 miles from the County Longford border to Donegal Bay, where it has a coastline of two and a half miles.
		Leitrim is a county of fine lake and mountain scenery and of good angling waters, with many attractions for the climber, the walker and the cyclist.
		Leitrim remains unspoilt, a haven from the stresses and strains of modern urban living.
	www.irishbeds.com /leitrim.html (281 words)

	Leitrim Ireland tourism - hotels, bed and breakfast,car rentals Leitrim, county maps...
		County Leitrim has beautiful countryside, with mountains, lakes, rivers, pastures and extensive boglands.
		Although Leitrim has the shortest coastline of any Irish county, it does boast a beach of another kind - the sandy shore on the northern edge of Lough Allen is a popular spot in the hot summer months.
		River cruising is one of the most popular activities in County Leitrim, and the charming town of Carrick-on-Shannon is one of the best places to hire cruise boats on the River Shannon.
	www.countyleitrim.com (246 words)

	Leitrim
		SURFACE.--The northern half of the county is all mountainous or hilly, with the exception of a narrow east-and-west belt extending in breadth from Donegal Bay to Lough Melvin and the river Duff.
		The chief lakes in the interior are: in the north part of the county the lovely Glenade Lake, a little over a mile in length, occupying the head of a fine valley, which is traversed by the Bonet River issuing from the lake.
		TOWNS.--Carrick-on-Shannon (1,384), the assize town, Mohill (1,117), and Ballinamore (526), are all in the southern division of the county.
	www.libraryireland.com /Atlas/Leitrim.php (1237 words)

	Lewis: Co. Leitrim
		LEITRIM (County of), a county, of which a very small portion is maritime, in the province of C
		The form of the county is somewhat pyramidal or approaching to that of a slender cone, having its base resting on Longford and its apex on the sea cost: its extreme length is about 46 miles; its breadth varies from 16 at the former extremity to 2 at the latter.
		In the southern parts of the county, and generally in the fertile districts, great improvements have been made in the breed of this latter stock, by the introduction of English and Scotch coms of the most esteemed sorts.
	www.trainweb.org /i3/lewis_let.htm (4156 words)

	County Leitrim travel guide - Wikitravel
		County Leitrim is situated in the Northwest Ireland and Lakelands.
		It is the least densely populated county in Ireland and until recently its population was still declining.
		Manorhamilton is the only settlement of any size in north Leitrim and is set at the junction of 5 glens on the Sligo-Enniskillen road.
	wikitravel.org /en/County_Leitrim (305 words)

	Co Leitrim.
		THE Connacht county of Leitrim is all but landlocked, having a coastal outlet to the Atlantic only two miles in length on Donegal Bay between the boundaries of Co. Sligo and Co. Donegal.
		Leitrim is otherwise bounded to the west by Co. Sligo and Co. Roscommon, to the south by Co. Roscommon and Co: Longford, to the east by Co. Cavan and Co. Fermanagh, and to the north by Co. Donegal.
		The county, which is thinly populated, is hilly, ranging from shaggy brown hills to lofty mountains, and with deep valleys.
	www.iol.ie /~jfflynn/history.html (788 words)

	County Leitrim - Irish Vacation Travel Specialists
		Leitrim is divided into north and south by the waterways of the River Shannon and Lough Allen.
		Leitrim is a quiet and sparsely populated county.
		Leitrim has a collection of small market towns the largest is the county town Carrick-on-Shannon and Jamestown, built by 17th Century settlers loyal to King James I of Britain.
	www.12travel.com /ie/information/irish_counties/leitrim.html (286 words)

	Leitrim county, Ireland - Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
		This county, together with that of Cavan and part of Fermanagh, afterwards formed the territory of Breffny, or Brenny, which was divided into two principalities, of which the present county of Leitrim formed the western, under the name of Lower or West Breffny, and Hy Briuin.
		The principal vein of coal is bout 3 feet thick, of very great extent and of excellent quality both for domestic purposes and for smelting; but the beds are often interrupted by faults, by which portions of the strata are broken and thrown upwards from 20 to 40 yards.
		In 1783, Robert Clements, Esq., was created Baron Leitrim of Manor-Hamilton, advanced to the viscountry in 1793, and created Earl of Leitrim in 1795, which titles are now enjoyed by his son.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/leit/leitrimcounty.htm (3125 words)

	Leitrim Surnames
		For centuries, until the early 1700s, they were the most powerful family in Leitrim but they had their sub-chieftains, most notably the Reynolds and the McClancys.
		Breifne was the name of the ancient territory which covered the counties of Cavan, Leitrim, part of Meath and part of Sligo.
		Despite the fact that Leitrim has the smallest population of any county in Ireland, only 25,000 at the 1991 census, Leitrim people are household names in every walk of life today, way more numerous than the county’s population would suggest.
	www.faughnan.org /leitrim.htm (1421 words)

	Leitrim Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leitrim, a maritime county of Ireland, province of Connaught, bounded S by Roscommon and Sligo, W by the bay of Donegal, N by Donegal and Fermanagh, and E and SE by Cavan and Longford.
		Emigration from County Leitrim has been principally to America, chiefly to the east coast of the US, but some Leitrim emigrants ventured as far west as Oregon.
		The Leitrim Genealogy Centre has been set up to deal with enquiries from people who want to trace their Leitrim ancestors.
	www.travelinireland.com /county/leitrim/leitrim_genealogy.htm (325 words)

	County Leitrim
		Large portions of the county were confiscated from their owners in 1620 and given to English adventurers, the objective being to plant the county with English settlers, but this was largely unsuccessful.
		Leitrim was badly affected by the Great Famine of 1846-50 and with its unfertile soil creating poor agricultural productivity, high emigration has been a feature of the county for many years until the recent revival.
		It is said that Leitrim has the highest number of pubs per capita of the Irish population and the pick of the crop includes The Oarsman, Flynn’s Corner House and The Sheermore (Lynch’s Bar) in Carrick, The Arch in Jamestown, Fitzpatrick’s and Clarke’s in Mohill, Conway’s in Drumshanbo and The Tickled Trout in Kinlough.
	www.townandcountry.ie /index.cfm?page_extension=county_leitrim_bed_breakfast (525 words)

	Kennys: County Leitrim Books - Kennys Irish Bookshop, Galway, Ireland
		County Leitrim (Contae Liatroim in Irish) is one of the counties in the west of Ireland and is part of the province Connacht.
		Leitrim has a short length of Atlantic coastline but is mostly inland country.
		Today the county has one of the lowest population densities in the Republic and is one of the smallest counties by area.
	www.kennys.ie /categories/irishcounties/leitrim.shtml (375 words)

	Leitrim Ireland / Ireland Leitrim / County Leitrim Ireland / Hotel Leitrim / Restaurant Leitrim, Hotels Ireland, Travel ...
		The modern automated locks on the restored Shannon-Erne Waterway – whose vitality has contributed significantly to Leitrim’s new prosperity – may have had their own boat traffic lights since the waterway was reopened in 1994.
		Yet despite the new energy, Leitrim is rightly seen as a pleasantly away-from-it-all sort of place which has many attractions for the determined connoisseur.
		It’s said this administrative quirk is a throwback to the time when the all-powerful bishops of the early church aspired to have ways of travelling to Rome without having to cross the territory of neighbouring clerics.
	www.ireland-guide.com /counties/co_leitrim.743.html (426 words)

	Houses for sale in Leitrim - sell your house in County Leitrim Ireland
		This is a county that enjoys the best of both worlds - the buzz of the 21st Century world with its technology and e-commerce and the gentle hum of the rural world that isnt in a rush.
		The entire county has a population of less than 26,000 (2002 Census), with the spectacular mountainous area of North Leitrim being sparsely populated.
		Leitrim is becoming an increasingly popular tourism destination, especially for cruisers on the Shannon and the Shannon-Erne Waterway.
	www.irishlinks.co.uk /leitrim-houses-for-sale.htm (173 words)

	leitrim.travelinireland.com
		Leitrim (Hotels, Leitrim, Ireland) may be the most undiscovered county in Ireland, which is a genuine shame as it offers some of the most impressive inland scenery in the whole country.
		Leitrim, a maritime county of Ireland, province of Connaught, bounded S by Roscommon and Sligo, W by the bay of Donegal, N by Donegal and Fermanagh, and E and SE by Cavan and Longford.
		In the 13th century, southern Leitrim (Bed and Breakfasts, Leitrim, Ireland) was conquered by the Anglo-Normans.
	leitrim.travelinireland.com (799 words)

	Leitrim - Self Catering Accommodation in Ireland - Rent a Car in Ireland
		County Leitrim is a paradise for walkers and cyclists.
		The population of Leitrim is one of the lowest for a county in Ireland if you desire solitude, you’ll find it here.
		Leitrim is a fine county well known for its marvellous lake and mountain scenery.
	ireland.dublinevents.com /leitrim (727 words)

	Leitrim Genealogy Centre, Genealogy Services North West of Ireland, Leitrim Roots Ireland, Find Your Irish Roots, ...
		The county's population fell from about 160,000 in 1847 to 25,000 in 1996.
		Economic growth in Ireland in the last Decade has meant that the Census of 2002 showed an increase in Leitrim's population for the first time in over a century and a half.
		Not surprisingly Leitrim is the most unspoilt county in Ireland.
	www.leitrimroots.com (285 words)

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