Dromod
village in Connacht, Ireland
Dromod or Drumod (Irish: Dromad, meaning 'long ridge, or back of the wood') is a village in County Leitrim, Ireland. Dromod is a fishing village beside Bofin and Boderg, which are threaded by the River Shannon. The village harbour is used by tourist vessels which cruise the Shannon. A water feature in the centre of the village, known as 'The Weeping Tree', was made by a local craftsman from a piece of bog oak which was found nearby.
Demographics
Between 2006 and 2022, the population of Dromod increased from 210 to 753, an increase of 258.6%.
Dromod railway station
The village has a station on the Dublin-Sligo railway line connecting Sligo and Dublin Connolly long the mainline. Dromod railway station opened on 3 December 1862 and remains in operation, despite closing for goods services on 3 November 1975. Dromod also had a railway station on the narrow gauge Cavan and Leitrim Railway. It opened on 24 October 1887 and finally closed on 1 April 1959. A short section of narrow gauge line has been reopened at the station as part of preservation efforts.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dromod” is village in Connacht, Ireland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dromod, village and Connacht, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1980636. Authority coordinates are 53.867, -7.917. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2022, 1862 and 1975.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dromod” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.