Dromahair
| Dromahair Droim Dhá Thiar Dromahair |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 14 ′ N , 8 ° 18 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Ireland | ||
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| county | Leitrim | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | IE-LM | ||
| height | 51 m | ||
| Residents | 748 (2011) | ||
| Telephone code | +353 / 71 | ||
 Main street, dromahair
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Dromahair ( Irish Droim Dhá Thiar ) is a village in County Leitrim in the Republic of Ireland . There are two possible meanings of the name in Irish : The first, Droim Áth Thiar , means "hill at the western ford" and refers to the location on the River Bonet. The second, Droim dhá Eithiar , means "hill of the two demons". The place has 748 inhabitants (as of 2011).
Dromahair sits on the banks of the River Bonet near the east bank of Lough Gill . It used to be the seat of the O'Rourkes, kings of Brefnie . In the village there are still the remains of a castle and a little outside the ruins of the Creevelea monastery and Parke's Castle . Since the 1990s, the place was badly affected by the construction boom in Ireland; several hundred houses have been built, a number of which are empty. In Dromahair there are a few shops, a pharmacy, a post office, a kindergarten, a primary school and a library.
The place is 17 kilometers from Sligo and 10 kilometers from Manorhamilton . The town used to be connected to Enniskillen and Sligo by a railway line, but now there is an occasional bus transfer to Sligo.
