County Leitrim
County Leitrim is in Northwest Ireland and Lakelands Region, traditionally part of Connacht. It's a long narrow county, thinly populated with poor land, large lakes and boggy hills.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Carrick-on-Shannon and Manorhamilton.
Carrick-on-Shannon
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Carrick-on-Shannon is the county town of County Leitrim in northwest Ireland, and grew up at a place where the Shannon could be forded. Later the river was bridged, so Carrick and the south bank village of Cortober in County Roscommon became a single settlement.
Manorhamilton
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Manorhamilton is a town in County Leitrim in northwest Ireland, 26 km east of Sligo. With a population in 2022 of 1700, it's the only town of any size in the north of the county, from Lough Allen to the Atlantic coast.
Drumshanbo
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Drumshanbo is a small town in County Leitrim in northwest Ireland: in Irish Droim Seanbhó means "ridge of the old huts". It's at the south tip of Lough Allen, which almost bisects the county, and is drained by the River Shannon.
County Leitrim
- Type: county of Ireland with 32,000 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Co Leitrim”, “Co. Leitrim”, and “Leitrim”
- Neighbors: County Cavan, County Donegal, County Fermanagh, County Longford, County Roscommon, County Sligo, and Northern Ireland
- Location: Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“County Leitrim” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ليتريم”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Leitrim”
- Balinese: “County Leitrim”
- Basque: “Leitrim konderria”
- Basque: “Leitrimeko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графства Літрым”
- Belarusian: “Літрым (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Літрым”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি লিত্রম”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Liatroim”
- Bulgarian: “Лийтрим”
- Catalan: “comtat de Leitrim”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Leitrim”
- Cebuano: “County Leitrim”
- Central Kurdish: “کاونتی لیتریم”
- Chinese: “Leitrim Kūn”
- Chinese: “利特里姆郡”
- Czech: “Hrabství Leitrim”
- Danish: “County Leitrim”
- Dutch: “County Leitrim”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Leitrim”
- Estonian: “Leitrimi krahvkond”
- Finnish: “Leitrimin kreivikunta”
- French: “comté de Leitrim”
- French: “Comté de Leitrim”
- French: “Leitrim”
- Galician: “Condado de Leitrim”
- Georgian: “ლიტრიმის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Leitrim”
- German: “Leitrim”
- Greek: “κομητεία Λέιτριμ”
- Greek: “Λέιτριμ”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી લેટ્રીમ”
- Hebrew: “ליטרים”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ליטרים”
- Hindi: “काउंटी लीट्रिम”
- Icelandic: “County Leitrim”
- Indonesian: “County Leitrim”
- Irish: “Co. Liatroma”
- Irish: “Contae Liatroma”
- Irish: “Liatroim”
- Italian: “Contea di Leitrim”
- Italian: “Leitrim”
- Japanese: “リートリム州”
- Japanese: “リートリム県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಲೀಟ್ರಿಮ್”
- Korean: “리트림 주”
- Korean: “리트림주”
- Kurdish: “County Leitrim”
- Latin: “Comitatus Letrimensis”
- Latvian: “Litrimas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Leitrimo grafystė”
- Macedonian: “Литрим”
- Malay: “County Leitrim”
- Manx: “Coontae Lheeahtrim”
- Marathi: “काउंटी लीट्रिम”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leitrim Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Leitrim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leitrim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Leitrim”
- Norwegian: “Leitrim”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Leitrimscīr”
- Persian: “شهرستان لیتریم”
- Polish: “Leitrim”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Leitrim”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Leitrim”
- Russian: “Литрим”
- Scots: “Coontie Leitrim”
- Scots: “Coonty Leitrim”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Liathdroma”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Liatroma”
- Serbian: “Литрим”
- Sinhala: “ලේයිට්රීම් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Leitrim”
- Spanish: “Condado de Leitrim”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Leitrim”
- Swedish: “Leitrim”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Лийтрим”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி லேய்த்ரிம்”
- Telugu: “లీట్రిమ్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “คาสก้า”
- Turkish: “Co Leitrim”
- Turkish: “Co Liatroma”
- Turkish: “Co. Leitrim”
- Turkish: “Co. Liatroma”
- Turkish: “Contae Liatroma”
- Turkish: “IE-LM”
- Turkish: “Leitrim Co.”
- Turkish: “Leitrim County”
- Turkish: “Leitrim ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Leitrim Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Liatroim ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Liatroim”
- Ukrainian: “графство Літрім”
- Ukrainian: “Літрім (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Літрім”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی لیٹریم”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Leitrim”
- Welsh: “Swydd Leitrim”
- Western Panjabi: “لیٹرم”
- Wu Chinese: “利特里姆郡”
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