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Earl Leitrim is in Earl Ireland.
In 1795 Robert Clements 1st Earl Leitrim (age 62) was created 1st Earl Leitrim. Elizabeth Skeffington Countess Leitrim by marriage Countess Leitrim.
On 27th July 1804 Robert Clements 1st Earl Leitrim (age 71) died. His son Nathaniel (age 36) succeeded 2nd Earl Leitrim.
On 31st December 1854 Nathaniel Clements 2nd Earl Leitrim (age 86) died. His son William (age 48) succeeded 3rd Earl Leitrim.
On 2nd April 1878 William Clements 3rd Earl Leitrim (age 71) was assassinated along with his clerk and driver, near Cratlagh Wood while on his way to Milford (a village he owned in its entirety) from his home, Manor Vaughan (usually known as Mulroy House), on Mulroy Bay. Michael Heraghty and brothers Thomas and Bernard McGranahan were arrested. The gun butt had been traced to Heraghty, and paper for the wadding used to load the rifle was traced to a school copybook owned by the McGranahans. The McGranahans were released from Lifford Jail due to a lack of evidence. Heraghty died in Lifford Jail of typhus. The assassins, Nial Shiels of Doughmore, an itinerant tailor, Michael Hergarty of Tullyconnell, and Michael McElwee of Ballyworiskey, were from the remote Fanad Peninsula. His nephew Robert (age 31) succeeded 3rd Earl Leitrim. Winifred Coke Countess of Leitrim (age 27) by marriage Countess Leitrim.