Leitrim

Kermit.de.frog

According to this the population of Leitrim was 155,297 in 1841 :eek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim

Today it's only 31,972.

That's mad Ted.

If there is indeed broadband or dial-up available i'd like to ask a question of the natives. Wouldn't it be better to merge with a neighboring county and which would yeh prefer?

It's just it seems like there is no point to the county.

uck51js9zml2yt

I think the famine might have had a bit to do with it.

Odhinn

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

According to this the population of Leitrim was 155,297 in 1841 :eek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim

Today it's only 31,972.

That's mad Ted.

............

Nope, that's cannibalism.

Trigger Happy

Leitrim is great for making Cavan look good.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Pecker Dunne had a great love for the county.

Himself and Mary lived there for a while in their caravan.

elperello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZKACCy7OK8

Lovely Leitrim

jbt123

Apropos of nothing.. the mental hospital in Sligo is known as.. The Leitrim Hotel

Harry Palmr

Leitrim is tiny so imagine the population density prior to the Famines (yes there was more than one in the 18th and 19th centuries but as census data didn't exist before 1821 the impact isn't recorded)

passatman86

Always heard there's only one set of traffic lights in leitrim

MeTheMan

That was a lot to do with history that population. We are fine by ourself. We don't want to merge with anyone. It amazes me how small, pointless, forgotten about, insignificant (what ever other word you can think of to describe Leitrim) we are but yet people just love talking about us.

But, don't ye be worrying about us, we are doing just fine thanks.

Four Phucs Ache

My dad told me Leitrim is the garage on the way to galway.

Skylinehead

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Leitrim is great for making Cavan look good.

Even in Leitrim, we laugh at Cavan.

passatman86 wrote: »

Always heard there's only one set of traffic lights in leitrim

Nah we took those out. Work of the devil those things.

Mutant z

Emigration was a feature of that region for a century and a half in fact Leitrim only showed a positive growth in population by the 2002 census after being in continual decline since famine times before that so it kind of puts the dire economic situation into perspective for that part of the country.

Dr. Bre

I know the only gay in Leitrim

freshpopcorn

They don't have a Nandos!

Mrcaramelchoc

I puked in leitrim once on my way to Sligo.

cunavalos

The image below shows the effect of rural depopulation in the years after the famine especially in the border region and Leitrim

dxhound2005

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Leitrim is tiny so imagine the population density prior to the Famines (yes there was more than one in the 18th and 19th centuries but as census data didn't exist before 1821 the impact isn't recorded)

Dublin is even tinier. How do all the people fit into such a small place?

FREDNISMO

Its so good Larry Cunningham a native of Longford Dreamt about it

dxhound2005

FREDNISMO wrote: »

Its so good Larry Cunningham a native of Longford Dreamt about it

Longford, Leitrim and Cavan all meet near where Larry was from. Not just three counties meeting, but also three provinces.

Donald Trump

Odhinn wrote: »

Nope, that's cannibalism.

Apparently, it becomes a little bit difficult to further procreate after generations of inbreeding and riding your family members.



Nature/God just makes them infertile.

Harry Palmr

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Dublin is even tinier. How do all the people fit into such a small place?

Yeah but Dublin has streets and stuff. In third world locations you quickly reach dangerous densities due to lack of proper sanitation, transport, education etc.

dxhound2005

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Yeah but Dublin has streets and stuff.

County Dublin is much smaller than Leitrim.

elperello

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Longford, Leitrim and Cavan all meet near where Larry was from. Not just three counties meeting, but also three provinces.

A very nice man.
He had a supermarket in Granard.

PowerToWait

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Longford, Leitrim and Cavan all meet near where Larry was from. Not just three counties meeting, but also three provinces.

Arva?

Cee-Jay-Cee

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Longford, Leitrim and Cavan all meet near where Larry was from. Not just three counties meeting, but also three provinces.

Imagine arriving at that junction and having to make the awful decision on which direction to go.

Shudders....

Stigura

They used to hold a juniors disco night, in town. Apparently, coach loads of youngsters would bus in from miles around. They say these kids were falling out of the buses, already pissed as lords.

Taxi driver told me of an epic he saw. Seems some young, teenage buck stood in the middle of Main Street. Dropped his trousers and jocks to his ankles. Roared; " I'm From Longford!!! " And then demonstrated his contempt for Leitrim by voiding his bowels.

Unfortunately, straight into the jocks around his ankles!

And you lot say Leitrim people are strange?!

fergus1001

I've come across a few leitrim deniers who claim leitrim doesn't exist because they have never come across anyone from leitrim

Gadgetman496

You are all very good I have to say, I was reading through this thread and I almost believed Leitrim existed...

Skylinehead

fergus1001 wrote: »

I've come across a few leitrim deniers who claim leitrim doesn't exist because they have never come across anyone from leitrim

Well all you doubters feast your eyes on me.

Or my virtual persona I guess. Which doesn't prove anything.

fergus1001

Nixonbot wrote:

Or my virtual persona I guess. Which doesn't prove anything.

lies, all lies !!!

gammygils

Leitrim is actually a village in County Galway between Loughrea & Portumna near Kilnadeema with about 280 inhabitants

Gadgetman496

gammygils wrote: »

Leitrim is actually a village in County Galway between Loughrea & Portumna near Kilnadeema with about 280 inhabitants

The sneaky ba$tards, there moving West!

OMM 0000

https://leitrimjobs.ie - 4 jobs on July 30, 2018

or ... I'm not sure which...

cournioni

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Leitrim is great for making Cavan look good.

Everywhere is great for making Cavan look good. :cool:

Malayalam

One of the reasons people hear very little about Leitrim and surrounding areas is because we have perfected our Invisibility Spell. This is for good reason. It's so unreasonably beautiful around these parts that we don't want stragglers, passersby and loiterers coming here to spoil the place with yer modern inconveniences. Nothing to see here. Stay away. Leitrim doesn't exist.

badtoro

Leitrim is the Siberia of Ireland, people are sent there to count trees!

http://saveleitrim.ie

razorblunt

They've got a place called Drumshanbo, so they have that going for them.

drdidlittle

Dinosaurs still roam there allegedly

fryup

cunavalos wrote: »

The image below shows the effect of rural depopulation in the years after the famine especially in the border region and Leitrim

don't mean to be cynical or callous.....but.....could it be argued that the famine was a blessing in disguise? cause the population today would be in the region of 20 million +

and i don't think a small island /economy like ours would cope...the population that we have today is more or less perfect

timthumbni

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

According to this the population of Leitrim was 155,297 in 1841 :eek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim

Today it's only 31,972.

That's mad Ted.

If there is indeed broadband or dial-up available i'd like to ask a question of the natives. Wouldn't it be better to merge with a neighboring county and which would yeh prefer?

It's just it seems like there is no point to the county.

Leitrim???. Never heard of it. Is it part of the old Soviet Union.????

Creative83

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They don't have a Nandos!

Nandos isn't even nice! So overrated it's not funny

Kermit.de.frog

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

According to this the population of Leitrim was 155,297 in 1841 :eek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim

Today it's only 31,972.

That's mad Ted.

If there is indeed broadband or dial-up available i'd like to ask a question of the natives. Wouldn't it be better to merge with a neighboring county and which would yeh prefer?

It's just it seems like there is no point to the county.

That census survey must have been done on dole day.

topper75

cunavalos wrote: »

The image below shows the effect of rural depopulation in the years after the famine especially in the border region and Leitrim

Odd that in these pics you see that swathe around S. Ulster, E. Connacht, N. Leinster being obliterated. We are always told that the west coast of Ireland was where the famine hit hardest.

I can confirm after many pleasant summer visits that Lovely Leitrim is more than just a slogan. It is the obvious truth. Decent people too - no airs about them.

smurgen

I have to say of all the places i visited in ireland leitrim was the most surprising.couldn't get over how beautiful the landscape was.cavan probably the ugliest.

Kermit.de.frog

Don't think you want to go there.

Cavan people can be precious about their county from my experience.

HappySerious

In reality Leitrim is like Wakanda in the movie black panther. There are parts they show to the rest of the country but they hide their advanced technology, rich resources etc. Probably hundreds of thousands of them living in some secret city there and the ones you see outside Leitrim are spies.

JOBSOXO

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They don't have a Nandos!

Another reason to love Leitrim

Kermit.de.frog

An ARGUMENT in Leitrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdbk0KRvOCE

fergus1001

cunavalos wrote: »

The image below shows the effect of rural depopulation in the years after the famine especially in the border region and Leitrim

ahhhh would you look at all those Catholics making ground in Ulster its only a matter of time :pac:;):p

UCD has more traffic lights that the whole of leitrim, alledgedly there was a set installed somewhere but it was too confusing for the locals

Ipso

smurgen wrote: »

I have to say of all the places i visited in ireland leitrim was the most surprising.couldn't get over how beautiful the landscape was.cavan probably the ugliest.

That bit between Bundoran and Mullaghmore is nice, is there another part of Leitrim?