Leitrim (Counties Galway and Clare barony)

This article is about the barony straddling Counties Galway and Clare. For the Irish county, other Leitrim barony, and settlements of the same name, see Leitrim (disambiguation).

Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim) is a barony in Ireland that lies partly in County Galway and partly in County Clare.[la 1] It is located in the south-eastern corner of County Galway and the north-eastern corner of County Clare. Prior to 1898, the entire barony was contained in County Galway. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 split the barony: part of the barony was transferred to County Clare. Leitrim is bounded, clockwise from the southwest, by the Clare baronies of Tulla Upper and Tulla Lower; the Galway baronies of Loughrea to the west, Kilconnell to the north, and Longford to the east; and by Lough Derg to the south and southeast.[1] It measures 20 miles (32 km) from north to south and 9.5 miles (15.3 km) from east to west.[2]


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  1. ^ Joyce, Patrick Weston; Sullivan, Alexander Martin; Nunan, P. D. (1905). "Map of County Galway". Atlas and cyclopedia of Ireland. New York: Murphy and McCarthy. p. 130.
  2. ^ "Leitrim". The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland. Vol. 2. Dublin: A. Fullarton. 1846. p. 614.