Largydonnell Explained

Largydonnell
Native Name:Irish: Learga Uí Dhónaill
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Connacht
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:County Leitrim
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:2.9
Population As Of:2002
Population Density Km2:auto
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:54.4111°N -8.3194°W
Elevation M:99
Blank Name:Irish Grid Reference

Largydonnell [2] is a village on the R280 regional road in the north of County Leitrim in Ireland.

Transport

Bus Éireann Fridays-only route 495 (Ballyshannon-Bundoran-Kinlough-Manorhamilton) serves the village twice in each direction.[3]

History

Nearby to Largydonnell Post Office at the hump-backed bridge, on a road to the right in Ahanlish, are the ruins of an old forge where De Cuellar, a survivor of the wreck of the Spanish Armada at Tullaghan, spent some time before proceeding to MacClancy's Castle, located on an islet in Lough Melvin in the townland of Rosclogher, where he remained for three months.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Largydonnell Map, Leitrim, Ireland .
  2. Web site: Learga Uí Dhónaill/Largydonnell . Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) . 10 October 2021.
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121025090030/http://buseireann.ie/pdf/1202388077-495.pdf . 2012-10-25 .