General
information about
County
Leitrim
This county is relatively small, but it is full
of lakes (Lough Allen runs through the middle),
rivers, hills and marshes.
The capital of the county, Carrick-on-Shannon is
a good starting point for your visit. You can sail
on the river, fish, enjoy bicycle tours or walk -
why not try out horseriding or golf. It is indeed a
place for enthusiastic amateurs of fishing and of
boats as the boat club goes back to 1827 and each
year in August a regatta is organized.
Therefore, this is a fisherman's paradise - with
its 41 lakes and the river Shannon - which hosts a
great number of National and International Fishing
Contests, bream, mullet, tench, eels and trout.
There are also 528km of inland waterways which
offer a spectacle of fauna and flora.
It is a place you dream about to spend your
holidays with your family or with friends - we call
this county "the fishermens paradise"!
Area
:1526 km2
Population
25057
inhabitants (CSO:
Central Statistics Office)
Principal
city
Carrick-on-Shannon (1868 inhabitants)
Province
Connacht
County Leitrim
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