Part of Connacht's province and the Norther and Wester Region, County Leitrim is bordered by Donegal, Fermanagh, Cavan, Longford, Sligo, and Roscommon. It also has the shortest coastline of the sea. In ancient times Leitrim formed the western half of the Kingdom of Breifne; the area was influenced by the O'Rourke family of Dromahair, whose heraldic lion occupies the official county shield to this day. County Leitrim has a hilly and mountainous landscape in its northwest and is relatively flat in the southeast.","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet.","The Irish Potato Famine, also known as The Great Famine or Great Hunger lasted from 1845 to 1850 and resulted in a great exodus of Irish refugees fleeing to Britain, Australia, and North America, one of the most dramatic waves of Irish migration in history. It was one of the world's worst disasters in world history - over one million people died in a five year span.","Founded in 1788, New South Wales (NSW) was the first penal colony for England. British explorer, Captain James Cook, first discovered the east coast of Australia while attempting to examine the planet Venus in order to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun in 1770, he first named it New Wales, then later New South Wales.","The First Fleet departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","County Mayo (Mayo, Contae Mhaigh Eo)
Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Galway, Roscommon, and Sligo, County Mayo is part of the province of Connacht. The county's boundaries, which were formed in 1585, reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time. The history of County Mayo is long, with evidence of occupation going back to Mesolithic communities around 4500B. The county has experienced perhaps the highest emigration out of Ireland. From the 1840’s to 1880’s emigrants left the rural townlands of the county initially triggered by the great famine, as well as searching for new work in the United Kingdom and the United States. Today the county has beautiful landscapes and historical sites, such as the tombs.","County Londonderry (Londonderry, County Derry, Derry and Strabane, Causeway Coast and Glens, Mid-Ulster, County Coleraine, Coontie Lunnonderrie)
County Londonderry was one of the counties of the Kingdom of Ireland from 1613 onward and then of the United Kingdom after the Acts of Union 1800. County Londonderry's name is a subject of dispute; "Londonderry" is generally preferred by the unionists and "Derry" by the nationalists. The county was formed mainly from the old County Coleraine. The place name Derry is an anglicization of the Old Irish Daire (Modern Irish Doire), meaning "oak-grove" or "oak-wood." County Coleraine was one of the counties from 1585 to 1613 named after the town Coleraine, established between the rivers Bann and Foyle in 1585 during the reign of Elizabeth. It was later replaced mainly by County Londonderry but kept the town name Coleraine in 1613.","County Tipperary, (Tipperary, Cross Tipperary, Contae Thiobraid Árann)
Named after the town in the province of Munster, County Tipperary was established in the early 13th century. Referred to as the "Premier County" in the 1840s, a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary. The editor of the Nation newspaper said, "where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows." Following the Norman invasion, the Kingdom of Munster was claimed as a lordship. By 1210, the sheriffdom of Munster shired into Tipperary and Limerick. "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" written by Jack Judge is based on Tipperary since his grandparents came from the county.","County Fermanagh (Fermanagh, Contae Fhear Manach)
County Fermanagh “Contae Fhear Manach, meaning “men of Manach,” is within the province of Ulster, bordered by County Tyrone, County Monaghan, County Cavan, County Leitrim, and County Donegal. The only known Celtic tribe named in the 150 AD map of Ireland is the Menapii; they located their first colony—Menapia—on the Leinster coast around 216 BC. There are a sequence of faults over the county the Killadeas ","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Wales, or Cymru a region of rugged mountains, Moors and forests, is noted for its large coal deposits. Its people are known for their strong Celtic heritage and renowned choral groups. This region was originally populated by an Iberian people, who were overrun by the Celts in the 6th century BC.","County Sligo, (Sligo, Contae Shligigh)
Located in the province of Connacht, County Sligo has a lovely shoreline and borders County Mayo, County Roscommon, and County Leitrim. Initially formed in 1585, County Sligo did not come into effect until 1603. Its boundaries reflect the Ó Conchobhair Sligigh confederation of Lower Connacht (Irish: Íochtar Connacht) as it was, at the time, of the Elizabethan conquest. The Caves of Kesh, famous in Irish mythology, are in south County Sligo. The recently uncovered work of Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy shows Sligo as the likely location of Nagnata, an important place of assembly in the Iron Age.","As far back as 500 BC, the north central region now known as Germany was once occupied by the Celts and at its northern reaches Teutonic tribes. By 113 BC, German tribes began to invade along the Mediterranean in 113 BC, the Romans started their campaigns to push these Germani back. Their efforts against the Germanic tribes included many successful campaigns under the Roman general Gaius Marius, and then later by Julius Caesar in 55 and 53 BC.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_leitrim.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_mayo.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/island_of_ireland_sligo.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_fermanagh.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/island_of_ireland_sligo.webp?pos=floatRight","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Meehan","sU":"MEIGHAN","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/MEIGHAN/IR/Meehan/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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