Leitrim is Ireland’s Lost World – ‘You learn to live by a different rhythm here’

Ireland’s least populous county is an off-radar antidote to crowded staycations. The middle-of-nowhereness of it all is perfect for slow, off-season travel

Fowley's Falls, Co Leitrim. Photo: Fáilte Ireland

Pól Ó Conghaile

You could fit the entire population of Co Leitrim into one side of Croke Park.

Just 32,000 souls, give or take, live around the towns, farms, lakes, mountains and rivers of this beautiful, elusive county. Maybe that’s one reason the rest of us know so little about it. It feels like Ireland’s Lost World.