Definition & Meaning | English word BALLINAMORE

Definitions of BALLINAMORE

1. A small town in Leitrim, Ireland

Examples of Using BALLINAMORE in a Sentence

• The Gary Sheehan Memorial Medal commemorates Recruit Garda Gary Sheehan, killed on duty at Ballinamore, County Leitrim on 16 December 1983, and is awarded to the best all-round probationer.
• Along with Garda recruit Gary Sheehan, he was killed in a shoot-out with IRA gunmen at Derrada Woods in Ballinamore, County Leitrim.
• In February 2008, the exhibition opened in Ballinamore in County Leitrim, and in July it opened in Ballybofey in Donegal.
• Ballinamore has daily Local-link bus services to Carrick-on-Shannon and Dromod railway station, Monday to Saturday.
• Born in Dublin, John McGahern was initially raised at Corramahon, a townland located just over a mile east-north-east from the small town of Ballinamore in the south-east of County Leitrim.
• The Belturbet to Dromod part of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway ran from Belturbet through Tomkin Road, Ballyconnell, Bellaheady, Bawnboy Road, Killyran, Garadice, Ballinamore, Lawderdale, Fenagh, Adoon, Rosharry, Mohill and Dereen to Dromod.
• It was part of the narrow-gauge Cavan and Leitrim Railway from Belturbet to Dromod, with a line to Arigna from Ballinamore.
• The Gardaí eventually tracked Tidey and his kidnappers – four in all – to Derrada Wood in Ballinamore, County Leitrim on 16 December 1983.
• Josephs church situated on a hill overlooking the main Mohill Ballinamore road (R202) which traverses the area.
• After the river was canalised in the 1850s it was renamed as the Woodford Canal and sometimes as the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Canal.
• McGoohan (from Ballinamore), Michael Geoghegan (from Aughacashel), Mattie Boylan (from Carrick-on-Shannon), Michael Martin (from Ballinamore), Joe Nangle and Harry McKeon.
• Stranorlar and Glenties , opened 1895 (stations: Stranorlar, Ballybofey, Glenmore, Cloghan, Ballinamore, Fintown, Shallogans and Glenties).
• 30m from the N bank of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal, which at this point is a canalised stream, and c.
• Proposed refugee shelters were firebombed in Moville and Roosky, as was politician Martin Kenny's car in Ballinamore after he spoke in defence of refugees, and demonstrations were held in Roosky, Oughterard, Ballinamore, Carrickmacross, and Achill.
• There are stations in the towns of Carrick-on-Shannon, Mohill, Drumshanbo, Ballinamore, and Manorhamilton.

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