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separate Leitrim from Donegal and Sligo. Besides Lough Allen, which has an area of 8900 acres, the other principal lakes in the county are Lough Macnean, Lough Scur, Lough Garadice and Lough Melvin. The scenery of the north is See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild and attractive, while in the neighbourhood of the Shannon it is of See also:

GREAT

great beauty. Lough Melvin and the coast See also:

rivers afford See also:

rod fishing, the lough being noted for its gillaroo See also:

TROUT (Salmo trutta)

trout. This varied county has in See also:

general a See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor of Carboniferous See also:

LIMESTONE

Limestone, which forms finely scarped hills as it reaches the See also:

sea in Donegal Bay. The underlying See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone appears at Lough Melvin, and again on the margin of a See also:

SILURIAN

Silurian area in the extreme south.

The Upper Carboniferous See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, dipping gently south-See also:

ward, See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form mountainous country See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round Lough Allen, where the name of Slieve Anierin records the abundance of See also:

clay-ironstone beneath the See also:

COAL

coal seams. The sandstones and shales of this series scarp boldly towards the valley of the Bonnet, across which rises, in picturesque contrast, the heather-clad See also:

ridge of See also:

ancient See also:

GNEISS

gneiss which forms, in Benbo, the north-See also:

east end of the Ox Mountains. The ironstone was smelted in the upland at Creevelea down to 1859, and the coal is worked in a few thin seams. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is moist and unsuitable for See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain crops. On the higher districts the See also:

SOIL

soil is stiff and See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold, and, though abounding in stones, retentive of moisture, but in the valleys there are some fertile districts. See also:

Lime, See also:

MARL (from O. Fr. marle, Late Lat. margila, dim. of marga; cf. Du. and Ger. Mergel)

marl and similar See also:

MANURES

manures are abundant, and on the coast seaweed is plentiful. The proportion of tillage to pasture is roughly as 1 to 3. Potatoes are grown, but oats, the principal grain See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop, are scanty. The live stock consists chiefly of See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, pigs and poultry. Coarse linens for domestic purposes are manufactured and coarse pottery is also made. The Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties railway, connecting Sligo with See also:

Enniskillen, crosses the northern part of the county, by way of See also:

MANOR

Manor See also:

Hamilton; the See also:

MULLINGAR

Mullingar and Sligo line of the Midland Great Western touches the south-western boundary of the county, with a station at Carrick-on-Shannon; while connecting with this line at Dromod is the Cavan and Leitrim railway to Ballinamore and Arigna, and to Belturbet in county Cavan. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population (78,618 in 1891; 69,343 in 1901) decreases owing to See also:

EMIGRATION (from Lat. emigrare; e, ex, out of, and migrare, to depart)

emigration, the decrease being one of the most serious shown by any Irish county.

It includes nearly 9o% of See also:

ROMAN

Roman Catholics. The only towns are Carrick-on-Shannon (pop. 1118) and Manor Hamilton (993). The county is divided into five baronies. It is within the Connaught See also:

CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit, and assizes are held at Carrick-on-Shannon, and See also:

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter sessions at Ballinamore, Carrick-on-Shannon and Manor Hamilton. It is in the See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Kilmore, and the Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic dioceses of Ardagh and Kilmore. In the Irish See also:

House of See also:

COMMONS

Commons two members I were returned for the county and two for the boroughs of Carrickon-Shannon and See also:

JAMESTOWN

Jamestown, but at the See also:

Union the boroughs were disfranchised. The county divisions are termed the North and South, each returning one member. With the territory which afterwards became the county Cavan, Leitrim formed part of Brenny or Breffny, which was divided into two principalities, of which Leitrim, under the name of Hy Bruin-Brenny, formed the western. Being for a See also:

long See also:

time in the See also:

possession of the O'Rourkes, descendants of Rcderick, See also:

king of Ireland, it was also called Brenny O'Rourke. This See also:

FAMILY

family long maintained its See also:

independence; even in 1579, when the other existing counties of Connaught were created, the creation of Leitrim was deferred, and did not take See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place until 1583. Large confiscations were made in the reigns of See also:

Elizabeth and See also:

James I., in the Cromwellian See also:

period, and after the Revolution of 1688.

There are " druidical " remains near Fenagh and at Letterfyan, and important monastic ruins at Creevelea near the Bonnet, with several See also:

ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique monuments, and in the See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of Fenagh. There was a flourishing Franciscan friary at James-See also:

TOWN

town. The abbeys of Mohill, Annaduff and Drumlease are converted into parish churches. Among the more notable old castles are Manor Hamilton See also:

Castle, originally very extensive, but now in ruins, and Castle See also:

John on an See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in Lough Scur. There is a small See also:

VILLAGE

village named Leitrim about 4 M. N. of Carrickon-Shannon, which was once of enough importance to give its name to a See also:

BARONY

barony and to the county, and is said to have been the seat of an See also:

early bishopric.

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