Leitrim takes its name from Liath Druim, ‘the grey ridge’, a county of lakes and hills once ruled by the O’Rourke lords of West Breifne from their stronghold country between Sligo and Cavan.
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Leitrim takes its name from Liath Druim, ‘the grey ridge’, a county of lakes and hills once ruled by the O’Rourke lords of West Breifne from their stronghold country between Sligo and Cavan.
This is a county shaped by water on every side — bordered by the Shannon in the south and reaching, at Tullaghan, for barely three kilometres of Atlantic coastline, the shortest coastline of any Irish county.
