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Carrick-on-Shannon

  • Carrick-on-Shannon has the carnival, The Dock and a busy town-centre diary.
  • The Dock still carries the arts thread into summer with The Kings of the Kilburn High Road from 24 to 27 June, The Kite Ballet conversation on 4 July, Henry Glassie: Field Work on 18 July, The Green Loy concert on 25 July and Distillation on 29 July, plus Neurodivergence Deep Dive training, a kite-making workshop and a Bring and Tell gathering.
  • The Green Loy season runs at St George's Terrace from 20 June to 22 August, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, with local folk art and north-west traditions at its centre.
  • At Market Yard, Carrick on Shannon Farmer's Market runs every Thursday from 10am to 2pm.
  • Carrick on Shannon Farmer's Market runs at Market Yard Centre every Thursday from 10am to 2pm.
  • Current Market Yard notes include a 25 June 2026 drop-in on the proposed Wetland Ecology Park off the Leitrim Road, a pop-up craft market at the Market Yard on Saturday 27 June from 12pm to 5pm with live music, and a small 16-year thank-you for Leitrim Flowers at the farmers market.
  • Marketyard Town Centre also carries unit and space notices for the town centre.
  • Carrick's civic and club notices continue through Tidy Towns, GAA and rugby.
  • Carrick on Shannon Tidy Towns marks the town as Ireland's overall Tidiest Town 2025, recently carried a EUR5,000 Glancy's SuperValu donation note, and used the Market Yard with McCloys Consultants to gather public opinion on a feasibility study.
  • Another Tidy Towns post framed the work as many hands, with MyCarrick, Leitrim County Council, Leitrim Tourism and Carrick On Shannon Chamber beside it.
  • St Mary's Kiltoghert GAA lists Páirc Naomh Mhuire at Attifinlay / N41 C8Y1, a weekly 50/50 draw on the club app and a senior team note after retaining the All County League Division 1 title.
  • Leitrim GAA also carried a Barna Waste U13 Division 1 League Final item involving St Mary's Kiltoghert.
  • Carrick on Shannon RFC represents Leitrim and North Roscommon, keeps a local business directory and is running tag rugby at the club grounds.
  • The Carrick on Shannon Billboard public board carries ordinary recommendation notices: trades, small jobs, local services, car boot, buy-and-sell and lost/found-style posts.
  • Carrick on Shannon Buy And Sell also carries practical local notices.
  • The public Carrick diary includes The Dock, Market Yard, farmers market, Tidy Towns, GAA, rugby, chamber, river activity, food businesses and practical local notices.
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02

Mohill

  • Mohill hosts Connacht Fleadh 2026 from 28 June to 5 July with traditional music, concerts, sessions, workshops and competitions for musicians, singers and dancers.
  • The week opens at Lough Rynn Castle with O'Carolan's Feast and a John McGahern film screening, then runs through workshops, Trad Bingo, singing, storytelling, a Douglas Hyde historical walk, the Grand Opening and Five Branches Concert on 2 July, the Mulcahy Family gala concert, Jig Jubilee Family Fleadh, Glor na dTonn events, Fleadh Mass, craft village, vintage display and town sessions.
  • Around the Fleadh, there are family, garden, library, GAA and show notices.
  • Mohill Family Support Centre is based in Canon Donohoe Hall on Upper Main Street, with counselling, art therapy, play therapy, parents support, Foróige Youth Club, Youth Cafe, carers support, music, dancing, cookery and summer camps.
  • Its current local notices add Coffee & Chatter on the last Thursday of the month from 10am to 12pm and a Parent and Toddler group every Tuesday from 10am to 12pm.
  • Mohill Community Garden is a volunteer group maintaining and growing vegetables, fruit and trees, while Mohill Community Network Tidy Towns carries town-care notices and Fleadh welcome material.
  • Mohill Library on Castle Street has a small Traddlers event for 4-7 year olds with Fionnuala Maxwell on Tuesday 30 June as part of the Fleadh week.
  • CLG Maothail - Mohill GAA lists Philly McGuinness Memorial Park on Hyde Street, club culture-and-wellbeing activity and regular 50/50 draw nights moving through town boxes, The Green Rooster/Cusacks and O'Carolan's Bar.
  • The Agricultural Show is listed for Sunday 16 August 2026 at Reynolds Topline Sports Hub and McGowan's Field on Cloone Road, Mohill's notices include the Fleadh, family centre, toddler mornings, coffee mornings, library, garden, Tidy Towns, GAA, pubs, shops and show fields.
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Drumshanbo

  • Drumshanbo's summer diary has Corry Strand Water Safety and An Tostal in the same week.
  • Corry Strand's 2026 swim and safety week runs from Monday 29 June to Saturday 4 July, starting at 9am, with only Seal and Marlin classes at that location.
  • Public local notices also pointed to Drumshanbo Fire Station Open Day on Saturday 20 June from 12.30pm to 3pm.
  • An Tostal runs from 28 June to 4 July 2026 and is the Drumshanbo festival that has continued every year since 1953; recent notices include sponsor thanks for this year's festival.
  • The Mayflower adds another strand to the town week.
  • Mayflower Community Centre in Mahanagh describes itself as a community centre and sports hub with astroturf, running track, handball, volleyball and basketball courts.
  • Drumshanbo Community Sports Hub is based there and lists a three-day Multi-Sport Summer Camp from Monday 29 June to Wednesday 1 July 2026, 10am to 1pm, for 7-12 year olds.
  • The Mayflower also shared Leitrim School of Art Summer Camps 2026 for Ballinamore and Drumshanbo.
  • Drumshanbo Tidy Towns recently thanked volunteers for watering, the small civic work that keeps the town ready for visitors.
  • Drumshanbo Comhaltas carries the music line into Connacht Fleadh, including the Five Branches Concert on Thursday 2 July 2026 at Mohill Community College.
  • Drumshanbo-ie - News & Events carries general town notices, with older public-art memory around the Tuatha De Danann Sculpture at the Riverside.
  • The Drumshanbo diary includes Corry Strand, An Tostal, the Mayflower, Sports Hub, Tidy Towns, Comhaltas, Lough Allen Adventure, pubs, shops, water-safety classes, summer camps and Riverside sculpture memory.
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Manorhamilton

  • Manorhamilton's weekly diary runs through Bee Park as well as the arts buildings.
  • BeePark Community Centre on New Line describes its work as economic, cultural and community benefit and carries practical posts such as free period-poverty supplies in the ladies bathrooms, charity/sponsorship notices and ALONE volunteer calls for County Leitrim.
  • Manorhamilton Farmers Market is based at Bee Park Resource Centre every Friday from 10am to 2pm, with the listing naming it as a lively local market, and the public listing adding that it started in April 2005, supports local producers, moves indoors in winter and is still looking to expand the stall mix.
  • Recent market notes even give the small town detail of coffee-stall activity.
  • North Leitrim Women's Centre is also part of the Bee Park/New Line picture, with supports including a Well Woman clinic, affordable counselling, training, group activity and community heritage through Leitrim Women Through Time.
  • Glencar Manorhamilton GAA is another Bee Park anchor, with a 50/50 draw, youth Academy-season notes and weekly club notices.
  • Manorhamilton Tidy Towns adds the civic side with a community-against-litter road-sign project and town plan, while community outreach material places tennis, chess, boxing, Men's Shed, Girls Brigade, women's group and parent-and-toddler activity in Bee Park Community Centre.
  • The Glens Centre keeps the youth arts line with Rockschool from 29 June to 3 July 2026, the Rockschool concert on 3 July and PEACEPLUS Arts & Film Training Camp from 13 to 17 July for ages 13 to 18.
  • Leitrim Sculpture Centre adds exhibitions and workshops, including Leitrim Women Through Time with North Leitrim Women's Centre.
  • The town's summer board also includes Africa Day 2026 at Bee Park, Manorhamilton Community Games, July tennis camps, Leitrim Glens Sportive on Sunday 2 August 2026, Sharon Loughlin's annual fun run/walk from Newtownmanor Hall and the Lissinagroagh Wind Farm planning file for the wider Manorhamilton/Rossinver area.
  • The main civic file to keep beside the arts diary is Lissinagroagh Wind Farm.
  • Leitrim County Council says the Strategic Infrastructure Development application can be inspected from 21 May 2026, with EIAR and NIS material available through An Coimisiún Pleanála under case reference PAX12.324290, and submissions due by 5.30pm on 10 July 2026.
  • The project site says FuturEnergy Ireland submitted the application in May 2026 for a 14-turbine wind farm and associated works.
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Ballinamore

  • Ballinamore's summer community diary is still built around the Island Theatre and Community Hall, but the hall is more than a show list.
  • Ballinamore Camino is on Saturday 11 July 2026, starting and finishing at the Island Theatre, with 36.5km, 25.5km and 16.5km loops taking in the Shannon-Erne Waterway, Pol an Eas Waterfall, Sliabh an Iarainn, Bencroy Viewing Point and a hot-meal finish.
  • Island Theatre listings add The Kings of the Kilburn High Road on 17 July, Stage One Summer Music Programme weeks from 20 and 27 July, later 2026 shows, and Solas Art Gallery in the same building.
  • Island Theatre also carried a current Solas post for local artists Damien O'Rourke and Tony Lock.
  • Ballinamore Family Festival is the town's big Main Street week, with the festival notices pushing its 60th birthday from 9 to 16 August 2026.
  • The site describes free open-air concerts, packed children's days and one of the remaining week-long festivals in Ireland.
  • The 2026 lineup has Patrick Feeney, Qween, The Wren Boys with Ballinamore Ukulele Group, Sean Magee, High Stool Prophets, Mike Denver, Derek Ryan, Rhythm & Sticks and Johnny Brady, alongside music, art, sports, water activities and family events.
  • The ordinary town work sits around the theatre and the Den.
  • Ballinamore Area Community Council CLG is based at the Den on Swanlinbar Road and the Town Team material records a Community Services Hub, Better Together work, playground and sports-complex plans, a MUGA, Den insulation, solar panels, EV charger, Felim's Pitch, enterprise units and biodiversity gardening.
  • Ballinamore Tidy Towns gives the volunteer streetscape side, while the Biodiversity Gardening Group works on native planting, mowing, swifts, solitary bees and waterside birds.
  • The Men's Shed, Hens' Shed, Community Arts and Crafts Group, walking group, Sean O'Heslin's GAA, Abbey Rovers, Scouts, golf, boxing, basketball, blueway and greenway material add weekday community life around the festival stage.
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Carrigallen

  • Carrigallen has Corn Mill Theatre, Carrigallen Vocational School and Carrigallen GAA as public anchors.
  • Corn Mill lists Love Hungry Farmer on Thursday 30 July and describes itself as an intimate venue for touring productions, musical artists and live bands, home to Corn Mill Theatre Group, which produces two full-length productions annually and competes in one-act and three-act circuits.
  • Carrigallen GAA's 2026 stream gives live fixtures and results, while the county support-centre list places Carrigallen GAA as an emergency hub with charging, hot water, kitchen, showers, toilets and 50 seats.
  • Carrigallen Vocational School is a co-educational, multi-denominational ETB school on the Leitrim/Cavan/Longford border, with 2026/27 enrolment underway and school values of excellence in education, equality, respect, community and care.
  • The next theatre listing is sharper: The Love Hungry Farmer by John B.
  • Keane with Seamus O'Rourke is listed for Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July at 8pm, admission EUR25.
  • Leitrim Youth Theatre also places junior and senior Tuesday groups in Carrigallen Community Hall from 13 January 2026.
  • The MSLETB profile says the vocational school opened in 1957 as a three-room building and grew to nineteen classrooms, putting school, youth theatre, drama, GAA, Macra, shops and border-town life into the same local picture.
  • Local notices add a stronger club-and-village-development line.
  • Carrigallen GFC is running a development 50/50 draw, with a listed live draw in the Kilbracken Arms Hotel and a guaranteed EUR1,500 jackpot in the featured notice.
  • The same GAA post says the development plan includes a new multipurpose room, sensory room, lift access to the first floor, a fully accessible clubhouse, main-pitch floodlights, walkway lights and an AstroTurf pitch.
  • The official fixture stream gives the football rhythm around Carrigallen, Cloone, Fenagh and Aughnasheelin, including Carrigallen's 3-15 to 1-04 away win in Cloone on 22 May 2026.
  • Corn Mill Theatre keeps Main Street as the arts centre, with Love Hungry Farmer on 30 and 31 July and Conor Breen's A Little More Than Magic on 3 October, while its history places Carrigallen drama back to the late 1800s, the present group to 1963 and the theatre building to 1989.
  • Carrigallen also hosted the 2026 Leitrim County Fleadh from 17 to 19 April, with a separate Margaret's Corner gathering trace for storytelling and traditional music.
  • Carrigallen's notices include Corn Mill, youth theatre, vocational school, GAA development, Kilbracken Arms draw night, County Fleadh, Margaret's Corner, Macra, shops and border-town life.
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Aughavas

  • Aughavas has GAA, community-centre and school notices running together.
  • Aughavas Community Centre describes itself as a place for centre and local-community updates, and recently shared St Joseph's Sports Day 2026, including a tractor run as part of the Agri Kids work.
  • The centre also lists Irish, music, dance and meeting rooms for the local ICA, and centre notices carry a Christmas Market with stalls and a free parish/surrounding-area afternoon, plus a mental health and wellness evening in the hall.
  • The centre is also a county support centre with phone charging, hot water, kitchen facilities, toilets and seating for 120, while a separate profile describes it as a volunteer-run rural community centre that fundraises for its own operation.
  • St Joseph's NS is a Catholic primary school with two classroom teachers, two SET posts, two SNAs, a school secretary, an active Parents' Association and a 10th Green Schools Flag in 2024 for global citizenship, food and biodiversity.
  • St Joseph's NS began as Aughavas Community Calling and still shares parish life as well as school news; recent school material includes morning club / after-school notice, Sports Day, the tractor run, an Aughavas GAA Junior A champions cup visit, a Junior Room nature walk and school-garden tidy-up, and an RSA Seatbelt Sheriff road-safety visit.
  • Aughavas GAA gives the club rhythm: the notice describes a very active South Leitrim club, carries ClubSpot notes, a reserve-team win over Bornacoola by 0-15 to 0-13, an U15 St Joseph's championship item against Mohill in Eslin, official fixtures around Bornacoola, Gortletteragh, St Mary's Kiltoghert and Mohill, and a EUR1,500 support cheque to St Joseph's NS and Afterschool.
  • The Irish Men's Sheds Association also lists Aughavas Men's Shed.
  • McCaffreys, CK Steelworks, music, dance, ICA, centre stalls and parish memory sit around that school-centre-GAA board.
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Dromahair

  • Dromahair's public activity runs through The Depot, the community park, the GAA, the schools, the library/community facility and the Bonet valley.
  • Dromahair Development Association/Tidy Towns carries Dromahair Local Notes, a poster-free village campaign inside the 50k zone, regular clean-up calls and the Development Association Blotto.
  • The Blotto is a practical parish habit: the 23 June 2026 draw took place in The Depot, the jackpot carried forward, the next draw was listed for 7 July, and the game also runs through local businesses and online entries.
  • The wider Dromahair community group carries day-to-day notices: Catherine's Country Kitchen taking a short break at Harvey Meats until 2 July, event-service adverts for parties and school events, buy-and-sell activity and Killargue Community Centre offering a 120-seat room with kitchen access for gatherings.
  • Dromahair Arts & Recreation Centre works with Drumlease NS, Ardvarney NS, St Joseph's NS Killenummery, Leckaun NS, St Patrick's GAA, Naomh Padraig LGFA, Dromahair FC, Dromahair Anglers and Dromahair Development / Tidy Towns.
  • Its park facilities include a playground, outdoor gym equipment, full-size all-weather surface, 1km walkway, pavilion and meeting rooms, with Dromahair Lights Up and walkway-resurfacing notes adding the health and volunteer-care side.
  • St Patrick's Dromahair GAA, founded in 1955, carries member-draw updates, a Nashville fundraiser with clubhouse music and barbecue, football-pitch development, Leitrim U20 and U17 player notes, Belhavel Gaels underage fixtures and late-June games around Drumshanbo, Kinlough and Carrigallen.
  • Dromahair Library also appears in the county literary diary for The Forgotten Peterhead Men, while Leitrim County Council's Dromahair Flood Relief Scheme notice keeps the public-works file visible for Ardakip More, Killananima and Corcusconny.
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09

Leitrim Village

  • Leitrim Village's public week sits around St Josephs, the school, the pump and the canal.
  • St Josephs Community Centre has a Creative Youth workshop on Monday 13 July 2026 from 2pm to 5pm for ages 11 to 17, while Cruinniu na nOg placed the 1000 Leaves flipbook animation workshop at St Josephs NS on 6 June.
  • Tidy Towns meets from 8pm to 9pm on Mondays and Wednesdays at the village pump under the big chestnut tree at the Keadue Road junction, and a recent call asked people to join a Monday and Wednesday evening weed blitz.
  • The first Corpus Christi procession took place on Sunday 7 June 2026 after 10.15 Mass and was described in public village notes as a community day to remember.
  • A weekly walk met at Drumhierney Car Park on Friday 5 June at 11am, with short local walks led by a trained Walk Leader and no charge to join.
  • The same local notice run shared nearby caregiver arts, women's soccer, ladies golf and Garda recruitment notices, plus the small resolved village note of a friendly cat around Drumgaglome being back home.
  • Parent-and-toddler activity, ICA, youth club, music sessions, the shop, takeaway, karate, canal activity and greenway interest sit beside those school, centre and pump routines.
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Cloone

  • This Cloone bulletin covers late June and the main summer 2026 notices.
  • Family Mass was listed for St Mary's Church on Sunday 21 June at 11.30am, with a Fatima National School Parents Association coffee and tea morning afterwards in Cloone Community Centre.
  • Cloone/Aughavas Community Playschool is taking September 2026 bookings in the community centre on weekday mornings, and the parish notice recorded a replaced digital church bell system costed at EUR4,740.80.
  • The Leitrim Cycling Festival weekend from 8 to 10 May 2026 made the centre a village base for film screenings, a kids bike-powered disco, art workshops, storytelling, shared meals, pizza, curry, cake, a boxty breakfast, Bóthar na Naomh activity and a Creegan's Pub traditional music session.
  • Bóthar Na Naomh Adventure Duathlon on Saturday 1 August 2026 starts from Cloone Community Centre, with a 2.5km trail run, 20km road cycle, 5km adventure trail run, adult 5km adventure run, kids' 5km trail run for ages 7 to 15, and a two-person team option.
  • Cloone's summer notices run through school coffee morning, Mass, playschool, church repair, cycling weekend, pub music and duathlon activity around the same community centre.
  • Annaly Ceili Band is listed for Cloone Community Centre on Sunday 28 June from 4pm to 7pm, with caller Padraig McEnaney, raffle, EUR10 admission and everyone welcome.
  • Midlands Brickx Club has a LEGO summer camp in the centre on Friday 14 August 2026 from 10am to 1pm, with booking essential.
  • Cloone Agricultural Show has Dream Draw tickets available through Creegan's, McKeon's and committee routes.
  • Cloone Homecoming carries reunion and local-memory notices, Cloone Tidy Towns carries village-care updates, Cloone GAA has older and newer club notices in use, and Cloone Haunted Trail and Cloone St Patrick's Parade are seasonal community notices.
  • Leitrim County Council's 2026 Holy Wells Project is a current county heritage lead that fits Cloone's older well records.
  • The project is collecting existing information and oral histories on holy wells across Leitrim and is seeking volunteers from individuals and community groups.
  • Cloone has older public holy-well references through the Schools' Collection and National Library material, including St Creigharee's Well.
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Kinlough

  • Kinlough's community centre is the village noticeboard as much as a venue.
  • The first St Patrick's Day parade started there just after midnight on Tuesday 17 March 2026, after people gathered from 11pm the night before, went through Main Street and came back for tea, cake and music.
  • RTÉ described it as Kinlough's first parade and Ireland's earliest St Patrick's Day parade.
  • The same centre notices include GAA, Foróige, the kayak club, Monday-night bingo, a July Community Development Co syndicate and children's camp notices into the ordinary village week.
  • Recent centre notices include more than the parade story.
  • The Town Team meeting on 17 June was repeatedly pushed from the centre, with project posters and a 7pm call-out for people to come in.
  • The discussion around it covered heritage, local history, EV charging, biodiversity, sport, tourism, farming and transport, with public comments also talking about practical charging points.
  • The same notices carried a small missing black cat notice around Edenville, a small neighbourhood notice alongside meetings and events.
  • The lake and sports side is practical too.
  • Lap the Lake for North West STOP is listed for Saturday 18 July 2026 from Askill Community Centre, with 32km Lough Melvin laps, registration from 7.30am, first lap at 8am and a final lap at 7pm.
  • Glenade Bonfire Night was carried as a nearby Lough Melvin evening, with the Glenade Resource Centre named for Tuesday 23 June 2026 from 8pm.
  • The ORIS-funded Boathouse extension was shown close to completion in late May.
  • Lough Melvin Eco Park gives Kinlough woodland, lake shore, walking trails, wildlife habitats, picnic area, play area and community garden, while Melvin Gaels uses the community-centre pitch and the astroturf is open to local groups, clubs and individuals seven days a week from 9am to 11pm.
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Fenagh

  • Fenagh Visitor Centre is the village's weekly-room anchor, with the Monk's Den soft play centre, the Dolmen Cafe and Fenagh Heritage Centre in the same building.
  • The current routine is practical: progressive 25 cards on Thursdays from 8pm, Parent, Baby & Toddler mornings on Fridays from 10am to 12 noon, Active Age on Mondays at 3pm, gentle exercise for seniors on Thursdays from 2pm to 3pm, yoga on Thursdays at 8pm in Fenagh Community Centre, Pilates on Wednesdays at 7pm and 8pm, and table tennis on Mondays at 7.30pm.
  • The centre also keeps play slots visible for the Monk's Den, so the same building is doing children, parents, older people, cards, cafe and heritage.
  • Fenagh's community side runs out from that centre into the village.
  • The group listings name Tidy Towns, Book Club and Parent & Toddler as local groups, while recent Tidy Towns notices have Tuesday 6.30pm work sessions meeting at the Visitor Centre.
  • Fenagh Women's Group Bonfire Night was advertised for Fenagh GAA Pitch on Tuesday 23 June 2026, 7.30pm to 10pm, with music, dancing, food and a bucket collection for North West Hospice.
  • Fenagh St Caillin's GAA adds the club and school line.
  • The club is founded 1888 and the 2026 notes carry regular lotto, the park-development draw at Molly's Bar, Fenagh, school football through Fenagh St Caillin's NS, underage U13 and U17 items, reserve football and county fixtures around Allen Gaels, Melvin Gaels, Carrigallen and Mohill.
  • Fenagh has visitor centre, cafe, soft play, heritage, Tidy Towns, bonfire night, school football, club lotto, GAA pitch and weekly classes as the working town picture.
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Keshcarrigan

  • Keshcarrigan has the Old Barracks as a community-space project.
  • Shannonside reported that Keshcarrigan Development Association had planning permission to develop the old Garda Barracks, phase one was complete and the next stage was hoped to begin the following year, with chairperson Paddy McGreevy calling it a huge project.
  • A public fundraiser lists EUR3,640 raised toward a EUR20,000 target and says the building dates from 1861, was granted to the development association on a long lease in January 2024, and is planned as a community/resource/heritage centre with meeting rooms, working hubs, indoor/outdoor play areas and a museum or cultural interpretative space.
  • Tailor McKeon's, Leanna's Lodge, Gerties Canal Stop, canal/lake visitors and tea-day fundraisers sit around that project.
  • The local fundraising side keeps the Old Barracks story active: Shannonside says locals maintained the building after the Garda station closed in 2013, and the GoFundMe fundraiser says the 1861 barracks was granted to the development association on a long lease in January 2024.
  • Recent development-association notices add the practical pieces: a yard sale at the Astro units with proceeds for the Barracks, and a one-off community heritage workshop about the building's future.
  • Calendar sales, race-night style fundraising, Gertie's, Tailor McKeon's, canal visitors, lake activity and ordinary local trading all sit around the same building.
  • Shannonside's June housing item adds another current civic line: four completed one-bedroom apartments in Keshcarrigan had remained vacant since December, with the council saying August allocation was expected once right-of-way and easement issues involving Uisce Eireann were resolved.
  • The local noticeboard also had the ordinary trade and evening-life side: household pieces for sale and Pete's Pizza at Gertie's Bar from 5.30pm to sellout.
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Dromod

  • Dromod has the Cavan and Leitrim Railway season in the centre of the village diary.
  • The railway opened from Easter Sunday, 5 April 2026, and runs until the end of September, with Saturday hours 11.30am-4.30pm, Sunday 1pm-4.30pm and Monday 11.30am-4.30pm.
  • Entry is listed at EUR9 adult, EUR6 child/student/OAP and EUR20 family, and the volunteer-run visit is described as 45 to 60 minutes with transport exhibits, aircraft cockpits and a narrow-gauge railway trip.
  • Leitrim County Council also congratulated Dromod Tidy Towns on a Bronze Medal in the 2025 Tidy Towns awards.
  • Dromod Harbour Petanque is a newly established Leitrim club, The Copper Still serves food daily and carries weekend music, and Dromod Boxty's food listing points to traditional family recipes, locally sourced ingredients where possible, gluten-free boxty, potato bread and pancakes.
  • The harbour, marina, boxty, pub music, petanque, cycling, visitor stays and Annaduff/Drumsna parish links sit around that seasonal stop.
  • Local notices keep Dromod tied to parish and harbour life.
  • Dromod Village & Tidy Towns describes the village as part of Annaduff parish and shares club/parish notices, including the golden-jubilee Mass item for Fr Frank Garvey from Drumsna and Fr Cathal Faughnan from Annaduff.
  • Dromod Harbour Petanque adds the small-club side at the harbour, while The Copper Still's weekend music, The Brandywell, Cox's and Dromod Boxty keep the food and evening-life line active.
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Drumsna

  • Drumsna's Community Resource Centre gives the village a care-centre role.
  • The centre lists weekly bingo, hot meals to clients' doors, daily lunches, a sun veranda, meeting lounge and kitchen treats.
  • Shannonside reported in May 2026 that Drumsna CRC delivers meals across south Leitrim and offers a day service for older people, with food and fuel costs putting pressure on the service.
  • The Meals on Wheels directory also places the centre in Drumsna with Julie Dockery as contact person, and the centre says its meals service supports independence with affordable, nutritionally balanced meals five days a week.
  • Public centre snippets also mention extra pre-chilled Friday meals for the weekend.
  • Taylor's Bar, Annaduff/Dromod parish links, Drumsna Fuels, keep-fit activity, LeitrimExperience.ie at The Grange and small trades/service requests sit beside that kitchen, bingo, lunch and older-persons service.
  • The centre lists the weekly community-room detail: Golden Age Group, ICA and Tidy Towns meetings, art classes, defibrillator training, yoga, traditional music lessons or classes and Thursday-night bingo as a social event.
  • Older centre notices include a Drumsna CRC 5km fun run/walk and a care-related share about the Alzheimer day centre opening in Carrick-on-Shannon.
  • Drumsna's notices include the kitchen, drivers, lunch table, bingo room, Golden Age, ICA, Tidy Towns, music, yoga and Shannon-side village life.
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Newtowngore

  • Newtowngore has a school, parade and local-record story, with the planning note only one part of it.
  • Newtowngore National School has permission for a new all-weather playing pitch with fencing and netting at Mullyaster, with the application received on 30 March 2026, decided on 7 May and granted on 9 June.
  • The school material also gives the working-parent detail: admissions material, a 2026 information booklet, onsite afterschool care from 1.50pm to 2.50pm and the option for pupils to travel by school bus to Drumreilly Community Centre for later care through Drumreilly Community Afterschool and Breakfast Club.
  • The school also carries recent pride in a Junior Entrepreneur award for the pupils' book For The Love of the GAA.
  • Newtowngore St Patrick's Day Parade adds a Main Street gathering, with weekend entertainment starting on Sunday 15 March 2026 and the main parade on Tuesday 17 March at 4.30pm.
  • Newtowngore & Drumeela History keeps the older local line through headstone records, Drumeela RC cemetery records and collected documents.
  • Richardson's Craft Butchers and XL, Drumreilly Church of Ireland, Corby Steel, the school pitch, afterschool bus care, Junior Entrepreneur pride, Main Street parade and local records make the village note read as school, shop, church, children, old names and a March gathering.
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Ballinaglera

  • Ballinaglera's community hall carries hub, GAA, walking, older-story and shop/pub-memory notices.
  • Ballinaglera Digital Hub is based at Ballinaglera Community Hall, N41 A2N8, with three desks, kitchen facility, high-speed broadband, free parking and video-conferencing facilities.
  • GEAI says 20 solar panels were installed on the hall roof with LEADER support, and its emergency-hub proposal adds solar power with battery storage, EV charging, rainwater harvesting, backup generation, showers and laundry.
  • The local hall-and-trail rhythm is chair yoga, village clean-up days, Walking for All, a local youth club for resident members and a St Hugh's Well biodiversity walk starting at Ballinaglera Hall.
  • Ballinaglera GAA adds the parish sport line: a recent All County League post had Ballinaglera beating Cloone 0-21 to 0-08, the fixture trail runs through St Hugh Park, Drumreilly, Carrigallen and Blacklion, and upcoming Division 3 listings put Ballinaglera away to Carrigallen on 4 July and at home to Drumreilly on 11 July.
  • The club history says Ballinaglera left Allen Gaels in 1981, serves the rural parish between Lough Allen and Sliabh an Iarainn, and developed Pairc Naomh Aodh with dressing rooms, a training pitch, playground, all-purpose sports hall and gym.
  • The local information page asks for stories, old photos, customs and family histories, and carries village memory around Skerrie Rynn's bar and shop.
  • A Seed Stories evening in the community hall added drawing, remembering, seeds, local food and the Leitrim Environmental Network AGM.
  • Ballinaglera's notices include hall, hub, solar roof, GAA pitch, gym, chair yoga, litter picks, youth club, St Hugh's Well, Lough Allen, Skerrie Rynn's, old photos and parish sport.
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Drumkeerin

  • Drumkeerin has a late-June community weekend and the animal welfare centre in its public notes.
  • Public notices advertised Grange Players' MOLL in Drumkeerin Community Centre on Saturday 27 June at 8.30pm, and Drumkeerin GAA's 2026 fixture stream has games around 13, 20 and 28 June.
  • Leitrim County Council lists the Dog Shelter at Barraghmore, Drumkeerin, N41 DX31, where Leitrim Animal Welfare provides dog-warden services under council contract; the shelter opens Monday to Wednesday 9am-4.30pm and Thursday-Friday 9am-4pm.
  • The John McKenna Festival ran from Wednesday 3 June to Sunday 7 June 2026, with Pop-Up Gaelteacht in the Community Centre, CeolChairde in Frank Davitt's Pub, Sunday Mass in Tarmon, wreath-laying at the John McKenna monument, a McKenna House session and whistle/flute competitions.
  • Leitrim Tourism carries Drumkeerin Community Family Festival from 14 to 23 August 2026 as a family week with plenty to do and see, while the public festival trail keeps Old Fair Day, Main Street activity, family sports and evening social fundraisers close to the same August stretch beside the Rowantree Centre, Main Street services, Lough Allen College and the road toward Dowra.
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Bornacoola

  • Bornacoola has GAA/LGFA activity, All Stars and a club grounds public-service role.
  • The club's own 2026 fixture listing shows Bornacoola beating Glenfarne/Kilty 4-16 to 1-8 at Kilglass on 20 June, losing narrowly away to Aughavas by 0-15 to 0-13 on 21 June, then listing Aughnasheelin away at 7pm on 4 July and Carrigallen at Kilglass at 7pm on 11 July.
  • The county support-centres list names Bornacoola GAA Club, N41 CC67, with phone charging, hot water, kitchen, showers, toilets and seating for 50.
  • Bornacoola GAA All Stars kicked off its 2026 season on 24 May at 9.30am on the AstroTurf for preschool and primary-school children.
  • Mothers & Others, girls' football, school fundraising, youth club, Community Games and Annaduff/Dromod links sit around the weekly club rhythm.
  • The club's own June note adds a pub-and-shop fundraising trail: the 50/50 draw was listed for Sunday 28 June in The Copper Still with a guaranteed EUR2,000 minimum jackpot, and tickets available in McGuire's in Rooskey, Hunts Supermarket, The Copper Still and online.
  • The same update recorded the junior team travelling to Aughavas and losing a tight reserve-league game by 0-15 to 0-13.
  • Recent club notices add the human side around that: the weekly update put the Glenfarne/Kiltyclogher win beside upcoming Aughnasheelin and Carrigallen games, while the ladies section noted Bornacoola players in Mohill-area Community Games teams and the Mothers & Others team at the Connacht blitz in Castlebar.
  • Lough Rynn Harvest Festival & Vintage Day was also shared locally for Sunday 6 September 2026, keeping Bornacoola tied to football, draw nights, shop counters, The Copper Still and the wider Lough Rynn diary.
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Rooskey

  • Rooskey has the Heritage Festival dawn walk and the school week in the same community picture.
  • Rooskey Heritage Festival advertised its 2026 walk for Saturday 9 May, starting at 4.15am from Rooskey Community Center.
  • Rooskey National School's June news adds a Teddy Bear picnic on 16 June, described by the school as a day of activities celebrating friendship and organised by the Student Council.
  • The school council notes say pupils are elected by classmates to represent views, improve school life, act as the student voice and help organise events.
  • Leitrim Shorin Ryu Karate lists Rooskey Community Centre among its club venues, and the Rooskey centre notice gives Monday karate with Michael from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
  • The Shannon, Rooskey Lock, the riverside walk, Blueway, angling, shops, post office, holiday parks, nursing care and river visitors sit around a school and hall that are visibly in use.
  • Recent local development and centre notices add more ordinary town life.
  • Rooskey Town & Country Development has been sharing updates on the Rooskey-Dromod walk/cycleway, the wider Rooskey-Tarmon trail and a Cavan-Longford bus-service consultation.
  • The Rooskey Centre lists Little Live Wires parent/toddler group on Friday mornings, Active Retirement on Tuesdays, Irish dancing on Wednesday and Friday evenings, Monday karate and the Bargain Basket charity shop with weekday opening hours.
  • That keeps Rooskey as school, hall, charity shop, toddlers, older people, dancing, karate, Greenway/Blueway, lock and river activity not only a festival placeholder.
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