Ballinamore

Ballinamore ( Irish: Béal Átha to Moir, dt: " opening the big ford ") is a small town in County Leitrim in north central inland of the Republic of Ireland.

The place

The Irish name of the place Béal an Átha Moir refers to the location as the former main crossing point on the Yellow River, the over flowing to the city and was expanded in the 1840s as a combination of Erne and Shannon Ballinamore - Ballyconnell Canal. From 1858 the canal was navigable from Ballinamore and was opened in 1860, but has never worked economically viable, which was closed and re-opened in 1994 as Shannon - Erne Waterway.

The first mention of the village dates in connection with the plantation of Leitrim from the year 1621st The oldest preserved building in the town is the church of the Church of Ireland, in the 1780s from the ruins of during the Reformation and the Penal Laws time destroyed the local Roman Catholic church was built.

Traffic and Demographics

Ballinamore is located in the east of County Leitrim on the R202, which intersects here with two other regional roads, 12 km of the National Road N87 and 19 km from the border with Northern Ireland ( County Fermanagh ) away.

Between 1887 and 1959, which has since closed station Ballinamore was the hub of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway narrow-gauge railway.

The inhabitants of Ballinamore was determined during Census 2011, 1,093 persons.