Who knew that one could buy Valentine's Day cards in Mohill in 1858?! 

An ad for cards ranging in price from a penny to 5 shillings is intriguing.

This article traces the origins of Valentine's Day and the practice of sending cards to lovers. 

In May 1851, at the Great Exhibition, Letitia Veevers from Mohill exhibited a number of lace and other products using unconventional plant fibres, including a range of wild and cultivated flowers.

In 1878, three tenants in Donegal had had enough of the evictions and tyranny over land. On a cold April morning, they lay in wait to ambush Lord Leitrim.

The reader of a local Leitrim newspaper in 1870 was well-informed on local, national and international issues and had access to a plethora of goods and services via the newspapers’ advertisers.

A look at the character of William Sydney Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, Lord Leitrim, and the earl’s formative years and family relationships

Lord Leitrim's lasting legacy is as a tyrannical landlord who violated girls and young women on his estates. He never married but he did have romantic relationships.