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{{short description |Village in County Leitrim, Ireland}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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|name                   = Dromod
|native_name            = {{lang|ga|Dromad}}
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|image_skyline          = IMG DromodRailwatStation5460.jpg
|image_caption          = Railway station
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|pushpin_label_position = right
|pushpin_map_caption    = Location in Ireland
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|subdivision_name       = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Connacht]]
|subdivision_type3      = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
|subdivision_name3      = [[County Leitrim]]
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|population_as_of       = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
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|population             = 753
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'''Dromod''' or '''Drumod''' ({{Irish place name|Dromad|long ridge, or back of the wood}}){{sfn|Joyce|1913|pp=331,336}} is a village in [[County Leitrim]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-03 |title=Dromod |url=https://leitrimtourism.com/towns-villages/dromod/ |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=Welcome to Leitrim |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/1416697.aspx | website = logainm.ie | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | title = Dromad / Drumod | accessdate = 13 May 2024 }}</ref> Dromod is a [[fishing village]] beside [[Lough Bofin (River Shannon)|Bofin]] and [[Lough Boderg|Boderg]], which are threaded by the [[River Shannon]]. Built along the River Shannon, this is a Tidy Towns winner with a modern harbour that is frequently used by cruiser traffic.{{fact|date=May 2024}} A water feature in the centre of the village, entitled 'The Weeping Tree', and was made by a local craftsman from a piece of bog oak which was found nearby.{{fact|date=May 2024}}

==Demographics==
Between 2006 and 2022, the population of Dromod increased from 210 to 753,<ref name="citypop"/> 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 [[rail transport in Ireland|mainline]]. [[Dromod railway station]] opened on 3 December 1862 and remains in operation, despite closing for goods services on 3 November 1975.<ref name="RS">{{cite web | title=Dromod station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=5 September 2007 | archive-date=26 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926042407/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> Dromod also had a railway station on the [[Narrow gauge railway|narrow gauge]] [[Cavan and Leitrim Railway]]. It opened on 24 October 1887 and finally closed on 1 April 1959.<ref name="RS"/> A short section of narrow gauge line has been reopened at the station as part of preservation efforts.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/all-aboard-an-irishman-s-diary-about-the-cavan-leitrim-railway-1.2692333|title=All aboard – An Irishman's Diary about the Cavan & Leitrim Railway|work=[[The Irish Times]]|first=Hugh|last=Oram|date=21 July 2016|access-date=24 May 2020|archive-date=8 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808063246/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/all-aboard-an-irishman-s-diary-about-the-cavan-leitrim-railway-1.2692333|url-status=live}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Dromod Garda Station - geograph.org.uk - 918939.jpg|thumb|Dromod's former Garda station (closed in 2014)]]
In [[Gaelic Ireland]] the place was called "Dromode mac Shanley" in recognition of the dominant [[Shanley|Mac Shanly]] sept of [[Muintir Eolais]].{{sfn|Downs Survey|1641}} The town is mentioned once in the [[Irish Annals]]- "{{em|1473: A great war broke out in Muintir-Eolais; and much was destroyed between them, both by burning and slaying. An attack was made by Mac Rannall on the town of Mac Shanly, and the town was burned, and Donough, the son of Donough Mac Shanly, and many others, were slain by him}}".{{sfn|O'Donovan|1856|pp=M1473.19}}

An [[Iron Ore|Iron]] works was established at Dromod {{circa|1693|95}}.{{efn|Iron works at Dromod and Ballinamore, on land confiscated from the Irish during the [[Plantations of Ireland#Subsequent settlement|plantations of Ireland]], had been established around 1695, by English adventurers named Capt. William Slacke,  John Skerret, and Joseph Hall.{{sfn|Kelly|1995|pp=1-12}}|name=irishName}} [[Pig iron]] brought to Dromod [[Finery forge]] was used to produce a malleable iron product, for transportation to Dublin and Limerick.{{sfn|Meehan|1926|pp=413}}{{sfn|Buchan|1860|pp=12}}{{sfn|Murray|1866|pp=155}} The operation was closed down in the 1790s, due to an exhaustion of forests locally.{{sfn|Kelly|1995|pp=1-12}}

Through at least the 19th and 20th century, seven annual [[fair]]s were held at Dromod- 1 January, 28 March (or 29th), 15 May, 26 June (or 29th), 14 August, 10 October (or 11th), and 11 December.{{sfn|Longman|2011|pp=405}}{{sfn|Watsons|1830}}

Between 2000 and 2007, during the [[Celtic Tiger]] period, the village grew and several new housing estates and buildings were built in the area.{{fact|date=May 2024}} Dromod was classified, by the [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]], as a [[census town]] for the first time in the [[2006 Census of Ireland|2006 census]].{{fact|date=May 2024}} At that time it had a population of 210 people.<ref name="citypop"/> By the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]], the population had grown to 753 people.<ref name="citypop"/>

The [[N4 road (Ireland)|N4 national road]], which previously ran through the village, was routed around Dromod and neighbouring [[Roosky]] with the opening of the N4 Dromod Roosky Bypass in December 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/minister-devins-opens-n4-dromod-rooskey-bypass/27557196.html | publisher = Sligo Champion | website = independent.ie | title = Minister Devins opens N4 Dromod-Rooskey Bypass | date = 12 December 2007 | accessdate = 14 May 2024 }}</ref>

==People==
* [[John McDonald (of Dromod)|John McDonald]], a 19th-century poet, lived near Dromod{{fact|date=May 2024}}

==See also==
*[[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

==Notes and references==
===Notes===
{{Notelist}}

===References===
{{reflist}}

===Sources===
{{Refbegin}}
*{{cite AFM}}{{sfn whitelist|CITEREFO'Donovan1856}}
*{{cite web
|title=Town of McShanley
|volume=Downs Survey
|author=Downs Survey
|url=http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/landowners.php#l1=McShanley,+Edmund+Oge&mc=53.858766,-7.917322&z=13
|year=1641
|access-date=10 January 2017
|archive-date=25 January 2017
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125231236/http://www.downsurvey.tcd.ie/landowners.php#l1=McShanley,+Edmund+Oge&mc=53.858766,-7.917322&z=13
|url-status=live
}}
*{{cite book
|title=Irish names of places
|volume=v.3
|publisher=Dublin : Phoenix
|last=Joyce
|first=P. W. (Patrick Weston)
|year=1913
|url=https://archive.org/download/irishnamesofplac03joyc/irishnamesofplac03joyc.pdf
}}
*{{cite book
|title=Traveller's New Guide Through Ireland, Containing a New and Accurate Description of the Roads
|publisher=Longman
|author=Longman
|orig-year=1819
|year=2011
|edition=digitized from original in Lyon Public Library
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0DnDPUvoAYC&pg=PA405
|access-date=2 October 2020
|archive-date=15 July 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715192812/https://books.google.com/books?id=R0DnDPUvoAYC&pg=PA405
|url-status=live
}}
*{{cite journal
|title=Cavan and Leitrim Items in 18th Century Periodicals. I.
|last=Meehan
|first=Joseph B.
|year=1926
|url=http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/Breifny-Antiquarian-Society-Journal-1925-26-Vol-II-No-III.pdf
|publisher=Breiffne Antiquarian Society
|journal=The Breiffne Antiquarian Society's Journal
|access-date=3 March 2017
|archive-date=1 March 2017
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301180903/http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/Breifny-Antiquarian-Society-Journal-1925-26-Vol-II-No-III.pdf
|url-status=live
}}
*{{cite journal
|title=On the Composition of the Iron Ores of the Connaught Coal-field.
|volume=2
|last=Buchan
|first=Patrick
|year=1860
|pages=1–27
|edition=Original from the University of California; Digitized 20 October 2010
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=koE7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA16
|journal=The Journal of the Royal Dublin Society
|access-date=3 March 2017
|archive-date=28 February 2017
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228175706/https://books.google.com/books?id=koE7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA16
|url-status=live
}}
*{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's and citizen's almanack ... for the year|author=Watsons|year=1830|publisher=Dublin, Printed for S. Watson [etc.]|url=https://archive.org/download/gentlemanscitize00wats_0/gentlemanscitize00wats_0.pdf}}
*{{cite book
|title=Handbook for travellers in Ireland
|first=John
|last=Murray
|publisher=John Murrary
|edition=2
|year=1866
|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrav16murrgoog
|page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrav16murrgoog/page/n227 155]
}}
*{{cite book
|title=The face of Time
|last=Kelly
|first=Liam
|publisher=Lilliput Press
|year=1995
}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Dromod}}
*[http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/your_station.asp?letter=D&action=showdetail&station_id=51 Dromod railway station] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927004124/http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/your_station.asp?letter=D&action=showdetail&station_id=51 |date=27 September 2011 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110201135748/http://godromod.com/ Community website] (archived 2011)

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[[Category:Towns and villages in County Leitrim]]