This map covers a section of the Shannon River from Lough Allen in the north and Lough Key extending down to Carrick-on-Shannon following the flow of the River Shannon. The counties of Leitrim and Roscommon comprise the majority of the map, with small areas of County Cavan and County Sligo also included. Some of the features included are...Read more
In the early 1950s, on alighting from the Dublin to Sligo train at Dromod after a journey of 21/2 hours, a traveller might pause to listen to the exhaust beat of a departing class D5 4-4-0, as the soot and briquette dust rained down. A few footsteps from the stone structure that was, and still is, the former Midland Great Western station, was...Read more
In the early 1950s, on alighting from the Dublin to Sligo train at Dromod after a journey of 21/2 hours, a traveller might pause to listen to the exhaust beat of a departing class D5 4-4-0, as the soot and briquette dust rained down. A few footsteps from the stone structure that was, and still is, the former Midland Great Western station, was...Read more
