We are delighted to announce that the website: orourkesofleitrim.ie is now live. This website is an initiative of Leitrim County Council Heritage Office and is an output of the O’Rourkes of Leitrim Heritage Project.
The website explores the O’Rourkes’ origins and history, highlights some of the most famous family members, and provides details on the historic sites connected to the Lords of Bréifne. The site also serves as a portal to the multitude of resources created as part of the Heritage Project. These include links to lectures and discussions, downloadable education packs and booklets, and interactive and memory maps. Through them you can uncover and directly engage with this extraordinary Gaelic family, who for so long ruled supreme over Leitrim’s landscape.
The destruction of the Public Records Office in June 1922 at the outset of the Irish Civil War has cast a long shadow over Irish
This project, conducted by UCC and funded under the Government of Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries Programme 2023, is the first systematic attempt to investigate the number of
AGM Saturday 16th May 2026This is a Zoom event for which you must book your place. It will be followed by the online lecture:“Pre-1800 Sources
The launch of Dr Bernadette Cunningham’s new book, English Countess, Irish Earl: The Social World of Frances, Countess of Clanricard, 1567–1632. The book will be officially launched at 6:00pm
