by Alanna Moore.
ISBN – 978-0-6452854-7-5
192 B5 pages
Python Press, August 2025
Time travel through serene green, hidden-treasure landscapes of County Leitrim. Be transported and enchanted, touring ritual sites, megalithic monuments, crumbling castles and fairy haunts. Follow less-trodden trackways through rural backwaters where ancient history shimmers close to the surface and grand legacies of engineering and craftsmanship point to an illustrious past. Discover original Pagan landscape lore, peeling away the dross of medieval mythos. Almost-forgotten sites lie waiting to be re-appreciated and re-experienced. Deep journeying, one gets a sense that the old sacred places are calling us to be remembered and protected!
Exploring invisible dimensions of landscape, beyond the range of our normal senses, the book dips into parallel Other-worlds immortalised in traditional place lore. Modern perspectives come from the author’s own paranormal experiences, as it paves a way for holistic site investigations to be better understood and appreciated. Author of eleven books, Alanna Moore is well qualified in reading landscape energies, having been a professional geomancer in Australasia and Europe for over forty years.
While it will stir the imagination of the armchair antiquarian, it’s best to visit the sites, take time to connect with and experience them. Mythic landscapes await you!
“What a beautiful peek into the magical Northwest of Ireland. Alanna’s words and photographs bring this part of Ireland to life – transporting us to the beautiful villages and landscapes of the region, their history and mystery. It is a book that feeds your soul and inspires you to visit the region for yourself.. Use this book to guide you in your quest or to fuel your dreams from a comfortable armchair with a cup of tea.”
Dawn Kirkham, Dowser and House Healer.
www.dawnkirkham.com
Legendary Leitrim Contents
Introduction – Time Travelling Leitrim 5
Chapter 1 – Setting the Scene
History and Pseudo-History 7 St Patrick 8 The Myth of Tara 9 Rathcroghan Mythos 9 Archaic Connaught 10 Linear embankments 11 Black Pig’s Dyke 12 The Doon of Drumsna 12 Cattle Raid of Cooley 13 Dagda’s Track? 14
Chapter 2 – Through the Gateway to the North West
Drumsna Village 17 Rue 20 Cornacorroo 20 Jamestown 21 Tully 23 Lisduff 24 Castlecarra 25 Clogher 26 Foxborough 26 Aughintobar 27 Headford 28
Chapter 3 – River crossings
Developments in the Late Iron Age 31 Early Christian sites 31 Early medieval Leitrim 33 Annaduff 34 Carrick on Shannon 36 Summerhill and Townparks 37 Attirory 38 Inishmucker 39 Portaneoght 39 Port 40 Leitrim Village 41 Drumhierny 41 Battlebridge 42 Drumboylan 42 Tumna Church 42 St Eiden’s Tumna 43 Church Hill 44 Visiting Tumna 45
Chapter 4 – Kings of Hospitality
Moy Nissi 49 Kings of Hospitality 49 Kiltoghert 50 Experiencing Kiltoghert’s Monastic Site 52 House of Hospitality at Mong 53 Drumheckil 54 Passage Tombs 54 Sheemore 55 Pilgrimage to Sheemore 57 Kilclare 58 Edenmore 59 Sheebeg 60 Lough Scur 61 Kiltubrid 63 Drumany, Churchfield and Lough Nacarriga 65 Castlefore 65 Keshcarrigan 66 Laheen 67 Lisdromarea 67 Annaghearley 67 Effrinagh 67 Corlisheen 68
Chapter 5 – Saintly Envy
Conmaicne Maigh Rhein 71 Fedaro 71 Labbyeslin 72 Mohill 73 Plague Saint 74 Mullaghbrack and Belcarra 76 Cloone 77 Drumharkin Glebe 79 Cloone surroundings: Sunnaghmore 81 Aghavas 82 Miltron Glebe 82 Carrigallen 82 Clooncorick 83 Killegar 84
Chapter 6 – Lakes of the Holy Cow
River Mermaids and Cow Lakes 87 Derrycarne 88 Furnace 88 Fearnaght 89 Aughry 89 Dromod 89 Lough Rinn 90 Farnaught 92 Gortleletteragh 94 Lear 94 Cloonee 94 Drumconny 95 Keeldra 95 Annaghmore 96 Clooncumber 97 Johnsons Bridge 98 Cloonmorris 98 Edercloon 100 Clooneen 100 Roosky 100 Killinaker 101
Chapter 7 – Land of the Dagda
Pagan Fenagh 103 Fenagh Lough 104 The Abbey and the Serpent 105 Fenagh Graveyard 105 The Bell of the Kings 106 Two Abbeys and a Book 106 Ballinamore 108 Oughteragh 109 Oughteragh Holy Well Experience 110 Miskaun Glebe 110 Lough Garadice 110 Woodford 112 Tullyhaw and Magh Sleact 112 Ballymagauran 114 Derryragh 115 Derryragh Experience 117 Kilnavert 118 Killycluggin 120 Lissanover 122 Jampa Ling 123 Ballyconnell and Ballyheady 123 Tomregan and Mullynagolman 124
Chapter 8 – Iron Mountain
Coming of the Iron Age 127 Acres 128 Drumshanbo 129 Lough Allen 130 Sliabh an Iarainn 131 Pulty 132 Sweathouses 133 Ballinagleragh 135 The Playbank 135 Dowra 135 Glangevlin 136 Tobar Muire 137 Shannon Pot 137 Cavan Burren 139
Chapter 9 – Wild West Breffni
Tarmon 141 Spencer Harbour 142 Corry 143 Drumkeerin 143 Belhavel Lough and Ben Scardaun 144 Tawnylea 144 Killarga 145 Dromahair 146 Creevylea Abbey 150 Killerry 152 Killerry Healing Stones Experience 153 Parkes Castle 153 Deer Park 154 Glencar 154
Chapter 10 – Bastions of the North
Glencar Valley 157 Lurganboy 158 Benbo 159 Manorhamilton 159 Tullyskeherny 162 Glenfarne 163 Lough MacNean Upper 163 Corrocloona 164 Kiltyclogher 165 Rossinver 166 St Mogues Holy Well Experience 167 Rossinver area 168 Lough Melvin 169 Sheenun 170 Sheenun Energies 171 Rosfriar 172 Tullaghan 172 Glenade 173
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