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unusual facts about Leitrim, County Antrim



Alexander McNeill

Born in The Corran, County Antrim, Ireland, the son of Malcolm McNeill, his mother was the sister of Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1973

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with St Patrick’s Creggan, based in Randalstown, County Antrim and Thurles winning the championships of the other two provinces.

Ann McNulty

The trio eventually appeared regularly on radio and at such venues as the Rockefeller Center's Radio City Music Hall, the Yorkville Casino, New York City’s Leitrim House and at Rockaway Beach, Queens.

Arthur Bell Nicholls

Nicholls was born in Killead, County Antrim, in Ireland to father William Nicholls, a Presbyterian farmer, and mother Margaret Bell, a member of the Anglican Church.

Cape Stolbchaty

Cape Stolbchaty is the cape at east shore of Kunashir Island, and place in the state of Sakhalin, Russia is famous for its columnar basalt formations, which are strikingly similar to the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

Cavan Cola

It was introduced in 1958, and was sold in 250ml bottles in shops in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim, Louth and Meath.

Clifford Richardson

Clifford Richardson is a Leitrim Gaelic footballer and Australian rules footballer who represented Ireland at the Australian Football International Cup.

Dixon Park

Dixon Park is a football stadium located in Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Earl of Shaftesbury

He was succeeded by his son, the 9th Earl, who was the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Lord Lieutenant of Belfast, County Antrim and Dorset and Lord Steward of the Household.

Erin go Bragh GAA

The team took part in the Sean Walsh Hurling Tournament on 22 October in Carrick-on-Shannon in Leitrim.

George Boyle Hanna

Born in Ballymena, County Antrim and educated at Gracehill Academy, Ballymena Academy and Trinity College, Dublin, Hanna was first admitted as a solicitor in 1901, being called to the Bar in 1920, taking silk in 1933.

Irish Independence Party

It was boosted in the late 1970s by the defection of a prominent Protestant Larne SDLP councillor, John Turnley, later the party chairman, who was killed in 1980 in Carnlough, County Antrim by an attack claimed by the Ulster Defence Association.

John Ballance

The eldest son of Samuel Ballance (a farmer of Glenavy, County Antrim, in what is now Northern Ireland) and Mary McNiece, John Ballance was born on 27 March 1839 in Glenavy in County Antrim.

Keshcarrigan

The local Gaelic Football team, Kiltubrid, were Leitrim County Champions in 2005 and Ireland rugby international Victor Costello was a former resident of Kesh.

Kinbane Castle

Kinbane Castle (Caislen Ceinn Bán, White Head Castle, Kenbane Castle) is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on a long, narrow limestone headland projecting into the sea, approximately 5 km from Ballycastle on the road to Ballintoy.

Leitrim Wetlands

The Leitrim Wetlands (also known as Albion Road Wetlands) is a large provincially significant bog near the village of Leitrim in the city of Ottawa.

Leitrim, County Antrim

There is another townland of the same name in the civil parish of Drummaul in the historic barony of Toome Upper.

Leitrim, Ontario

Leitrim is a suburban community and a developing neighbourhood, to Ottawa's rural south in Ontario, Canada, named after the Irish County Leitrim.

Loughlynch

Loughlynch or Lough Lynch is a townland in the parish of Billy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Manus O'Donnell

Supported by Munster and Connacht, and assisted also by English contingents and by the MacDonnells of Antrim, O'Neill took the castle of Ballyshannon, and after devastating a large part of Tyrconnell he encamped at Knockavoe, near Strabane.

McCorkell Line

It is said three brothers named McCorquodale, part of the Clan Gunn, arrived in Ireland after the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie following the rebellion in 1745, having escaped in an open boat from the west coast of Scotland and landed on the County Antrim Coast.

Merville Garden Village

Merville Garden Village is a housing estate located at Shore Road, Whitehouse, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland created by structural and landscape architect Edward Prentice Mawson.

Michael McKimm

McKimm was born in Belfast but lived from the age of seven on the north coast of County Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway and the town of Bushmills.

Mickey Moran

Moran was appointed Leitrim manager on 25 August 2008 ahead of the 2009 season, once again to be assisted by John Morrison.

In his managerial career he has had three stints managing Derry and has also managed Sligo, Donegal, Mayo and Leitrim.

Musa Qala

In memory of a prior conflict, in 2006, involving the British Royal Irish Regiment, a new Regimental March, composed by Chris Attrill and commissioned by Larne Borough Council, was gifted to the regiment on Saturday 1 November 2008 in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland during an event in which the regiment was presented with the 'Freedom of the Borough'.

Neil 'Smutty' Robinson

An exceptionally talented (and fearless) motorcycle track, circuit and road racer from Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Robinson was killed during a practice session at Oliver's Mount racing circuit, Scarborough, West Yorkshire.

Of One Belief

The Group was established on December 7, 2007 at a general meeting in the Elk Restaurant in Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which was attended by over 400 people.

Olcán

Olcán (fl. 5th century) is the name of an early Irish saint of the Dál Riata, disciple of St Patrick and founder of Armoy (Irish:Oirthear Maí) in northeast Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Packie Duignan

He recorded an album for the Topic label, "Traditional Music from County Leitrim", with the fiddler Séamus Horan in 1978 some of whose tracks later appeared on the compilation CD, "Irish Traditional Music" by Temple Records.

Packy McGarty

He played with Leitrim for 23 years from 1949 to 1971, playing he first senior game at the age of 16.

Patrick Buckley

Buckley was born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland and is now living at The Oratory, Larne, County Antrim, a house which used to belong to the Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor and which Buckley refused to leave following his suspension from the priesthood in 1986 by the then bishop, Cahal Daly.

Portlandite

It was first described in 1933 for an occurrence at Scawt Hill, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Quinn brothers' killings

Jason, Richard and Mark Quinn were three brothers killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in a firebomb attack on their home in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 12 July 1998, towards the end of the three-decade period known as "The Troubles".

Seán Boylan

Like another Meath football icon, Colm O'Rourke, Boylan has strong Leitrim connections as his late mother hailed from near the small village of Cloone near Mohill.

Seán Neeson

Neeson's election represented a notable geographic shift as his three predecessors (Alderdice, John Cushnahan and Oliver Napier) had all had political bases in the strip incorporating the East Belfast and North Down constituencies, whereas Neeson's political base was in County Antrim, to the north of Belfast.

SS Lake Champlain

On 30 June 1886, she ran aground on the Antrim coast, but was refloated, sold, and renamed Lismore.

St. Patrick's Hospital

The hospital retains Swiftian touches, with wards named after Stella (Esther Johnson), Vanessa (Esther Vanhomrigh), Henry Grattan, the village of Kilroot (in County Antrim) where Swift worked as Prebend at the church, and Laracor (County Meath) where he also worked as a clergyman.

Steve Desroches

In the election, Desroches defeated former Ottawa-Carleton Regional Chair Andrew Haydon to become the first councillor of this new ward which includes about half of Barrhaven, Riverside South and Leitrim.

Strawbridge

Robert Strawbridge (died 1781), Methodist preacher born in Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland .

Susanna Drury

She is chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, which brought international attention to the site.

Thomas McDonnell, Snr.

(1788 in County Antrim, Ireland – 13 September 1864 in Onehunga, Auckland) was a timber trader and Additional British Resident in New Zealand.

Thomas Tennison

He married the heiress Dorothy Upton, daughter of Thomas Upton, Member of Parliament for County Antrim, and cousin of the first Baron Templetown.

TSS Caledonian Princess

Built for the North Channel route from Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, to Larne, County Antrim, linking the west of Scotland with Northern Ireland, she was the first car ferry on the route.

William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane

Davison was born in Broughshane, County Antrim, the son of Richard Davison and his wife Annie née Patrick.

William Ormsby-Gore

Born William Gore, the eldest son of William Gore, MP, of Woodford, Leitrim he was the great-great-grandson of William Gore, third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, of Newtown, second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabag, whose eldest son Paul was the grandfather of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran.


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