Leitrim

[ross4life]

Great little county leitrim always had a soft spot for them but for some reason they don't like us & they love to beat us in football

If Ming win's a seat in the election he'll make leitrim one of the best tourist spots in Ireland

[Go home ref]

Is Leitrim the first place in Ireland to have more houses than people?

If your house was on the Roscommon - Leitrim border and your bed was in Leitrim, but your living room in Roscommon, how long would you live?

Not very long because you'd have to wade through the Shannon every time you went from one room to the other 
By the way Roscommon had the biggest percentage decrease in population between the 1841 and 1851 censuses( censi ?)at 31%

[Farrandeelin]

Shortest coastline in Ireland.

[Maguire01]

Shortest coastline in Ireland.

Monaghan's is shorter.

[LaurelEye]

Is Leitrim the first place in Ireland to have more houses than people?

If your house was on the Roscommon - Leitrim border and your bed was in Leitrim, but your living room in Roscommon, how long would you live?

Not very long, because you'd have drowned.

[All of a Sludden]

Shortest coastline in Ireland.

But not on the Island of Ireland. Armagh has a shorter coastline.

[ross4life]

W.B. Yeats was wowed with Glencar water fall

 
      "The Stolen Child"

Where dips the rocky highland
  Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
  There lies a leafy island
  Where flapping herons wake
  The drowsy water-rats;
  There we've hid our faery vats,
  Full of berries
  And of the reddest stolen cherries.
  Come away, O human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
 
  Where the wave of moonlight glosses
  The dim grey sands with light,
  Far off by furthest Rosses
  We foot it all the night,
  Weaving olden dances,
  Mingling hands and mingling glances
  Till the moon has taken flight;
  To and fro we leap
  And chase the frothy bubbles,
  While the world is full of troubles
  And is anxious in its sleep.
  Come away, O human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
 
  Where the wandering water gushes
  From the hills above Glen-Car,
  In pools among the rushes
  That scarce could bathe a star,
  We seek for slumbering trout
  And whispering in their ears
  Give them unquiet dreams;
  Leaning softly out
  From ferns that drop their tears
  Over the young streams
  Come away, O human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
 
  Away with us he's going,
  The solemn eyed:
  He'll hear no more the lowing
  Of the calves on the warm hillside
  Or the kettle on the hob
  Sing peace into his breast,
  Or see the brown mice bob
  Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
  For he comes, the human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

[armaghniac]

Quote from: Farrandeelin on Today at 06:42:33 PM

Shortest coastline in Ireland.


But not on the Island of Ireland. Armagh has a shorter coastline..

Is there anyone in Mayo who is not partitionist? Even on a light hearted thread you have to get your exclusionist politics in.
On Valentine's day too.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Quote from: Farrandeelin on Today at 06:42:33 PM

Shortest coastline in Ireland.


But not on the Island of Ireland. Armagh has a shorter coastline..

Is there anyone in Mayo who is not partitionist? Even on a light hearted thread you have to get your exclusionist politics in.
On Valentine's day too.

1. He is only using the official title of the Independent Irish State.
2. He does refer to the Island of Ireland.
3. I don't think he had any partionist intention.
4. I didn't realise Armagh actually touched the sea rather than the river.
5. End partition now, give Ballaghadereen back to the Mayo.

[Maguire01]

Shortest coastline in Ireland.

But not on the Island of Ireland. Armagh has a shorter coastline.

Where is Armagh's coastline? A river inlet hardly counts, does it?

[All of a Sludden]

W.B. Yeats was wowed with Glencar water fall

 
      "The Stolen Child"

Where dips the rocky highland
  Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
  There lies a leafy island
  Where flapping herons wake
  The drowsy water-rats;
  There we've hid our faery vats,
  Full of berries
  And of the reddest stolen cherries.
  Come away, O human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
 
  Where the wave of moonlight glosses
  The dim grey sands with light,
  Far off by furthest Rosses
  We foot it all the night,
  Weaving olden dances,
  Mingling hands and mingling glances
  Till the moon has taken flight;
  To and fro we leap
  And chase the frothy bubbles,
  While the world is full of troubles
  And is anxious in its sleep.
  Come away, O human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
 
  Where the wandering water gushes
  From the hills above Glen-Car,
  In pools among the rushes
  That scarce could bathe a star,
  We seek for slumbering trout
  And whispering in their ears
  Give them unquiet dreams;
  Leaning softly out
  From ferns that drop their tears
  Over the young streams
  Come away, O human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
 
  Away with us he's going,
  The solemn eyed:
  He'll hear no more the lowing
  Of the calves on the warm hillside
  Or the kettle on the hob
  Sing peace into his breast,
  Or see the brown mice bob
  Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
  For he comes, the human child!
  To the waters and the wild
  With a faery, hand in hand,
  From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-oJKYIinQ

[ross4life]

Shortest coastline in Ireland.

Monaghan's is shorter.

That's news to me.. where in Monaghan is the coast?

[armaghniac]

Where is Armagh's coastline? A river inlet hardly counts, does it?

If the tide rises there, it is the sea.

That's news to me.. where in Monaghan is the coast?

Monaghan's coastline was seized by Louth. Clogherhead used be the port for Clogher.
Louth should be dismembered, Monaghan could have its coast back, Armagh could take the top bit and Meath could have the rest.

[mylestheslasher]

I remember we used to slag the Laythrum lads in school about the county's birthrate - in one of the early years of the 1980s it was really low, 12 babies in a year, if I remember correctly!

I remember at school (could be the same one you went to) the cavan and leitrim lads used to slag the longford lads about their slip on pointy shoes, mullets and webbed feet. 

[omaghjoe]

Where is Armagh's coastline? A river inlet hardly counts, does it?

If the tide rises there, it is the sea.

Doesnt the tide rise up the Foyle to Strabane? That would give Tyrone a coast