Leitrim, County Leitrim
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Leitrim Liatroim
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 Leitrim
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| Coordinates: 53°59′27″N 8°03′49″W / 53.9908°N 8.0636°WCoordinates: 53°59′27″N 8°03′49″W / 53.9908°N 8.0636°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Leitrim |
| Elevation | 70 m (230 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 485 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | G958046 |
Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim) is a village in County Leitrim, Ireland.
It is located on the River Shannon at the junction of the R280 and R284 regional roads and is connected to the River Erne via the Shannon-Erne Waterway. Leitrim village is the gateway to the Shannon-Erne Waterway and boasts a jetty with excellent facilities for the cruising traffic which passes through. The village is just over 5 km from Carrick-on-Shannon and 155 km from Dublin.
Successive Finance Acts during the 1990s encouraged the building of hotels and holiday houses in designated deprived rural areas. The village was a large beneficiary of these tax incentives. The resultant explosive growth in the period between 2002 and 2007 saw several large complexes of self-catering apartments blocks being erected around the mariana which was itself funded by the International Fund for Ireland under the auspices of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It is a well kept village with an excellent record in the Tidy Towns competition, and it won the title once. Leitrim village is well situated as a base from which to explore the upper and County Leitrim.7
The village had 274 residents in 1834, 618 residents by 2002, and 1,033 residents by 2006.
From the Early modern period, County Leitrim is named after the village. Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centurys, numerous annual fairs were held at Leitrim village on- January 22, February 20, March 25, May 5, June 16, July 23, September 1 (or 3rd), October 13, and December 1. The village remains a strategically important ford of the River Shannon anciently connecting Ulster and Connacht.
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