Leitra, Corlough

Leitra (from Irish Leitreach, meaning 'The Wet Hillside') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

Its chief geographical features are the River Blackwater, County Cavan, mountain streams and spring wells.

[2] In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay soils.

It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land.

To his grandnephew Lowther Brien, city of Dublin, attorney, and his heirs his lands of Awengallis, Ballylenan, Ballymagirill, Stranadarragh, Carnagimlie, Cullagh, Drumleden, Leitry, Corlagh, Lananleragh [Lannanerriagh], Gowlanlea and Drumlogher, Co. Cavan, held under lease from the Beresford family.

[8] In 1851 the population of the townland was 45 being 26 males and 19 females, the reduction being due to the Great Famine (Ireland).