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This site also has a good section on history.</div> <div> See also the list under <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mohill today">Mohill today</A>.</div> <div> <B>Lough Rynn Castle</B> has recently been developed into a luxury hotel with spa and Nick Faldo-designed golf-course, see <A HREF="http://www.loughrynn.ie" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.loughrynn.ie">www.loughrynn.ie</A>. The Hotel has 58 bedrooms and offers conference and wedding facilities, a restaurant run by a celebrity chef, a bar and all of the facilities you would expect in a fine hotel And most importantly open fires and fabulous views.</div> <div> For more information on the <B>architecture of buildings in Lough Rynn</B>, see <A HREF="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie">www.buildingsofireland.ie</A>, the website of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Click here to go directly to <A HREF="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=highlights&county=LE&hid=23 " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/se">buildings at Lough Rynn >>>></A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="history"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>History</B></div> <div> <B>Researching local history and genealogy</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mohill.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mohill.com">Mohill.com</A><A HREF="http://www.mohill.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mohill.com"> </A>has a great section on Genealogy with lots of links, including direct access to the 1901 census returns for Leitrim.</div> <div> A <A HREF="http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/connacht/index_le.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/brow">fantastic list of resources on Leitrim</A> - and Mohill - has been compiled by ireland.com/The Irish Times on their website. It includes maps and lists of available resources covering Census returns and substitutes; Local history; Local journals; Directories; Gravestone inscriptions; Estate records; Leitrim Catholic records and Leitrim civil parishes.</div> <div> Searchable database of <A HREF=" http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/GRIFFITH/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/GRIFFI">Griffiths Valuation for Leitrim</A> and Roscommon</div> <div> Contact details for the <A HREF="http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Geneal/Leitrim.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Geneal/Leitri">Leitrim Genealogy Centre</A> in Ballinmore.</div> <div> To participate in a discussion - or ask a question - about your Leitrim roots, go to rootsweb.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllet/ where there is also a great list of links and resources.</div> <div> <B>Land ownership and landlords</B></div> <div> Cecil Woodham-Smith wrote authoritatively on land ownership and landlords in Ireland in <I>The Reason Why</I>, published in 1953 by McGraw-Hill Book Co. Lord Leitrim is mentioned.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/woodham-smith_land_monopoly_in_ireland.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/">For an exerpt from this book, click here >>></A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="geography_and_topography"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Geography and topography</B></div> <div> There are a few links to good resources in the <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Location and maps">Location and maps</A> section of this website, but the best resource for maps of Leitrim and Mohill is <A HREF="http://www.mohill.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mohill.com">www.mohill.com</A>.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="songs_and_ballads"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Songs and ballads</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ballad of Lord Leitrim"><B>Ballad of Lord Leitrim</B></A></div> <div> Jodie Stecher sings the ballad <A HREF="http://www.appleseedrec.com/jody_stecher/songsg.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.appleseedrec.com/jody_stecher">Lord Leitrim</A> on his "Oh, the Wind and Rain" album (Appleseed 1999). <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ballad of Lord Leitrim">For more click here>>></A></div> <bR> <div> Two ballads are published - with no credit as to author(s) - in <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Fanad Patriots">The Fanad Patriots</A>, printed in 1962.</div> <div> <A HREF="id65_the_banks_of_mulroy_bay_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Songs and ballads"><B>The Banks of Mulroy Bay </B></A></div> <div> The Banks of Mulroy Bay is not quite as vitriolic as the second ballad, though it still ends with:</div> <div> The great exterminator; the Lord of this estate,</div> <div> For him there was an inch of lead - too hard to masticate.</div> <div> His body it lay lifeless on the road, I heard them say,</div> <div> To feed the dogs and hungry crows on the banks of Mulroy Bay.</div> <div> <A HREF="id65_the_shooting_of_lord_leitrim.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Songs and ballads"><B>The Shooting of Lord Leitrim</B></A></div> <div> The following verse (out of nine) gives some indication of the emotions that Lord Leitrim was still able to inspire only 40 years ago:</div> <div> The widow's prayers he laughed at;</div> <div> The orphans' tears despised.</div> <div> He rooted up their homesteads</div> <div> And in poverty they died.</div> <div> He trampled on their sacred rights</div> <div> That earned their sweated toil,</div> <div> And he banished them in hundreds</div> <div> From Tirconaill's holy soil.</div> <div> Click on the titles for the complete lyrics.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>