Leitrim (
Irish: ''Liatroim'') is a
barony Barony may refer to:
* Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron
* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
* Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...
in
Ireland that lies partly in
County Galway
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and partly in
County Clare.
It is located in the south-eastern corner of County Galway and the north-eastern corner of County Clare. Prior to 1898, the entire barony was contained in County Galway. The
Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 split the barony: part of the barony was transferred to County Clare. Leitrim is bounded, clockwise from the southwest, by the Clare baronies of
Tulla Upper and
Tulla Lower
Tulla Lower (or Tullagh Lower) is a barony in County Clare, Ireland. This ancient geographical division of land is in turn divided into eight civil parishes.
Legal context
Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as divisions ...
; the Galway baronies of
Loughrea to the west,
Kilconnell to the north, and
Longford
Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It has a population of 10,008 according to the 2016 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meet ...
to the east; and by
Lough Derg to the south and southeast. It measures from north to south and from east to west.
Geography
The highest peak in the barony is the Scalp (380m), part of the
Slieve Aughty range.
Lough Derg forms the barony's eastern boundary. Three rivers flow in an easterly direction to the Lough; from north to south they are the Cappagh, the Woodford, and the Coos. The mines at Tynagh were a source of lead and zinc from the 1960s until their closure in 1981.
The
R353 regional road bisects the barony from east to west. At the northern end is the
N65 national road.
Settlements in the barony include Caherakilleen,
Kilreekill,
Tynagh and
Woodford Woodford may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Woodford, New South Wales
*Woodford, Queensland, a town in the Moreton Bay Region
*Woodford, Victoria
Canada
* Woodford, Ontario
England
*Woodford, Cornwall
* Woodford, Gloucestershire
*Woodford, Greate ...
in Galway, and
Mountshannon
Mountshannon (, historically anglicised as ''Ballybolan'') is a village in east County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the Catholic parish Mountshannon-Whitegate. The village is on the western shore of Lough Derg, north of Killaloe. Mountshannon ...
and
Whitegate in Clare.
Civil parishes
There are 12
civil parishes in the barony. Ten are in County Galway:
*
Ballynakill
Ballinakill () is a small village in County Laois, Ireland on the R432 regional road between Abbeyleix, Ballyragget and Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. As of the 2016 census, there were 445 people living in Ballinakill.
History
From 1613 unti ...
* Kilcooly
* Kilmeen
(Also partly in the barony of Loughrea)
* Killoran
(Also partly in the baronies of Clonmacnowen and Longford)
*
Kilreekill
*
Kilteskill
*
Duniry
Duniry is a small village between Tynagh and Abbey, in County Galway, Ireland. Nearby is the townland of Limehill, the south of which has a bog.
Duniry's most noted landmark was Egan's castle, now derelict; it flourished from 1450 to 1600 and ...
(Also partly in the barony of Longford)
* Leitrim
*
Abbeygormacan
*
Tynagh
Three since 1898 have been in County Clare:
*
Clonrush
Clonrush or Clonmulsk ( ga, Cluain Rois) is a civil parish in the barony of Leitrim, now in County Clare, Ireland. The largest settlement in the parish is Whitegate.
Location
Clonrush is to the southwest of Portumna.
It is and covers of w ...
* Kilbarron
which consists of a single
townland, the island of ''Illaunmore'' in
Lough Derg, which was transferred from the barony of
Ormond Lower in County Tipperary.
*
Inishcaltra
Inishcaltra ( ga, Inis Cealtra) is a civil parish in the barony of Leitrim in County Clare, Ireland. The main settlement in the parish is the village of Mountshannon. It is noted for the eponymous island of Inis Cealtra, which is an ancient C ...
(partly also in Tulla Upper)
References
From
logainm.ie
The Placenames Database of Ireland ( ga, Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann), also known as , is a database and archive of place names in Ireland. It was created by Fiontar, Dublin City University in collaboration with the Placenames Branch of t ...
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Baronies of County Galway
Baronies of County Clare