Ballinamore
Ballinamore ( Irish : Béal an Átha Móir, German: "opening of the great ford") is a small town in County Leitrim in the north-central interior of the Republic of Ireland .
The place
The Irish name of the place Béal an Átha Móir refers to its location as the former main crossing point on the Yellow River, which flows past the city and was expanded as the Ballinamore-Ballyconnell Canal in the 1840s as a connection between Erne and Shannon . From 1858 the canal was navigable from Ballinamore and was opened in 1860, but never worked economically profitable, was closed and only reopened in 1994 as the Shannon-Erne Canal .
The first mention of the place in connection with the plantation of Leitrim dates from 1621. The oldest surviving building in the city is the Church of Ireland , which was built in the 1780s from the ruins during the Reformation and the Penal Laws - Time destroyed local Roman Catholic Church was built.
Traffic and demographics
Ballinamore is in the east of County Leitrim on the R202, which intersects here with two other regional roads, 12 km from the N87 and 19 km from the border with Northern Ireland ( County Fermanagh ).
Between 1887 and 1959, Ballinamore station, which has since closed, was the hub of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway - narrow-gauge railway .
The population of Ballinamore was determined in the 2016 Census with 914 people.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly); however, the border with Northern Ireland, beyond County Cavan, is closer to Ballinamore than it seems here.
- ↑ Ballinamore on citypopulation.de, accessed on July 10, 2017
Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ N , 7 ° 48 ′ W