Lets do a test.

nanook · 19-08-2002 3:35pm #1

Right, alot of ppl go on about leitrim and words like narnia, myth and bog hoppers come to mind so here is my challange, if you decide to take it then that is up to you.

What is the most intereasting fact about Leitrim that you are willing to share with the www.

Lets start the ball rolling

1. Leitrim has the shortest coastline in Ireland.

Gordon · 19-08-2002 4:03pm

Well Nanook, Mr. Moderator sir. Off the top of my head I can think of some more interesting facts.

2) The county with the fewest inhabitants is county Leitrim with just 25,032 inhabitants at the last estimate.

3) The most sparsely populated county in Ireland is Leitrim, with a mere 15.8 inhabitants per square kilometre at the last estimate.

4) There exists, in Leitrim, Creevelea Franciscan Friary. Founded by Owen O'Rourke and his wife Margaret in 1508, it was the last Franciscan friary to be founded in Ireland before the Suppression of the Monasteries.

... umm I can't think of anything else, my mind is a bit goggled..

cournioni · 19-08-2002 4:15pm

5) Leitrim is only one of two counties outside Ulster that borders with Northern Ireland. The other county that borders NI is Louth.

20-08-2002 2:24pm

6) Leitrim has the largest suicide rate in the country

7) Ballinamore is the biggest ****hole in the country

NOW FOR YA

nanook · 20-08-2002 4:39pm

Right the ballinamore one i will give you but i am not going with the suicide rate, will have to shut that one down 1999 figures are not permissable as evidence,

, but ballinamore, I have to say you are a brave person putting ballinamore down but hey you know what you are doing lol.

For anyone who know's leirtrim then you will know what i am on about up there

Ruaidhri · 29-08-2002 1:53pm

8) No-one is ACTUALLY from Leitrim. Many people have heard of this county but no-one has actually seen it.
It's a government conspiracy,they fool us into believing that there is a leitrim,but there is not.like an Area 51 in reverse.

Seriously i have *never* met anyone from leitrim. sure it's in connaught..but i have never seen the place

not any of the inhabitants

nanook · 02-09-2002 1:47pm

it did take a while but we have our first muppet.

Ruaidhri it wasn't going to be long before anyone came out with the no one is from there routine, so i have to to congratulate you on being the Origional Leitrim flamer Muppe.

Congratulations

Ruaidhri · 02-09-2002 10:13pm

i was actually trying to be serious in the second part of that post there. i'm not basahing Leitrim,it's just that i have NEVER met anyone from Leitrim..so i dont have an opinion of the county.i dont know of anything that has come from leitrim and i dont know any business based in leitrim.

i will keep an eye on this board to pick up some information though.

Cond0r · 03-09-2002 10:06am

Originally posted by Ruaidhri
.i dont know of anything that has come from leitrim and i dont know any business based in leitrim.

MBNA?
Got a credit card?

nanook · 04-09-2002 5:01pm

Well done condor, I have to say that MBNA is a magnificent building on the dublin road out of carrick.

They promised alot to the community of carrick before getting the permission to loctate there and it seems that the majority has come to light so far, Rumor has it that they are expanding with an increase to existing employment

Cond0r · 06-09-2002 10:35am

Originally posted by nanook
Well done condor, I have to say that MBNA is a magnificent building on the dublin road out of carrick.

They promised alot to the community of carrick before getting the permission to loctate there and it seems that the majority has come to light so far, Rumor has it that they are expanding with an increase to existing employment

Yeah looks like they are building another building opposite the lovely one they have already

Ballydung · 09-09-2002 11:08pm

Just came back from around Dowra a few weeks ago and im just recovered. Many a late late night in some of the local establishments there ( Oh yeah i pissed in the shannon also or did i fall in ?? oh well)

nanook · 10-09-2002 10:50pm

ahhhhhhh dowra
home of the warm pint and the cold stare.

Did you go into mels or gildea's

Ballydung · 11-09-2002 11:02pm

Mels and the one next door and "boogies" there by the bridge.
Ah the stare I experienced that alright

nanook · 12-09-2002 4:20pm

ahhhhhh

aggie buggies

what a spot
did it have sawdust on the floor

Ballydung · 12-09-2002 8:07pm

No sawdust but plenty of glass and toilet floor was covered in piss

But I know what you mean I heard it was quite a place, but its been re-opened and its very nice inside, but the bar jutts out and when there are a few bodies in there it gets very tight, but thats ok if your next to one of the nice ladies. If only all pubs had sutch nice surroundings and more importantly did'nt give a toss about closing time.

24-10-2008 5:08pm

Ruaidhri wrote: »

i was actually trying to be serious in the second part of that post there. i'm not basahing Leitrim,it's just that i have NEVER met anyone from Leitrim..so i dont have an opinion of the county.i dont know of anything that has come from leitrim and i dont know any business based in leitrim.

i will keep an eye on this board to pick up some information though.

Where exactly are you from?

il gatto · 04-11-2008 3:29am

Deleted User wrote: »

Where exactly are you from?

Um. When is this thread from?

muffler · 04-11-2008 11:26am

Dont think he noticed the date.

il gatto · 04-11-2008 5:35pm

muffler wrote: »

Dont think he noticed the date.

He should've read it though. Then he would've noticed he already posted in it six years ago:D

muffler · 04-11-2008 5:37pm

Time flies when you're having fun

cronndiesel · 14-12-2008 6:06pm

Ruaidhri wrote: »

i was actually trying to be serious in the second part of that post there. i'm not basahing Leitrim,it's just that i have NEVER met anyone from Leitrim..so i dont have an opinion of the county.i dont know of anything that has come from leitrim and i dont know any business based in leitrim.

i will keep an eye on this board to pick up some information though.

sean mac deirmada-"the mind of the reveloution" 1916 rising

james gralton

fionn mac cuil was a regular there got some elexer of power/energy er... stuff on slibh an iareann
(sorry about this awful spelling)

o donebhann beara (of the famous long march) ended his march there was taken in by o rourke and given refuge in drumahaire castle

largest irish expatriate commuity in US (donegal has second largest)

largest coal mine in ireland

oldest iron mines (circa pre 2000bc)

last narrow gauge railway to close (1957)

part of europes oldest and largest stone age "necropolis"

higher standard then sweden iron products made there for a while

St Patrick founded some monestarys and holy wells that are still around

all i can think of so far

Further readiing: leitrim guardian/a lifes catch/sean mac diarmada: "mind of the reveloution"- sean mac atanacsy/leitrim observer archives/sligo champion archives/I.T sligo school of archeology dept

Civilian_Target · 08-01-2009 11:21pm

Isn't the register of births and deaths in Leitrim?

I like Leitrim, I know a few people from there and they're all great. But it really is the back-end of nowhere. I assume it comes from the Irish for Liath something - so it's grey.
Smallest number of vehicles registered in the country have LM reg, although I am not sure that this makes it exclusive

Lets do a test.

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