When Tamboran Resources announced that they would be focusing all their energies on North Leitrim, the name Thur Mountain was referred to.
For some this would be for the first time. But farmers who live under the mountain close to Kiltyclogher know it for the special place it is and shared that with the Love Leitrim Group.
If the resolve of these farmers holds firm, Thur Mountain may gain national significance, fuelling not just a national debate about energy choices, or economic options, but having the potential to shine a spotlight on Irish values.
There is something about the drive to Kiltyclogher, and not just the sheep you meet on the road up to it from Manorhamilton. Surrounded by symbols of previous resistance, a mass rock and archaeological sites, small farmholds littered on the hilltops, some who emigrated, many others braced it out to survive. The statue of Sean Mac Diarmada executed leader of 1916 rising stands in the centre of his hometown, his cottage nestled, protected under Thur Mountain.
The main thing you gain from meeting farmers is their sense of pride of the place they live, and how well farming is doing now.
Th Leitrim Observer
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