Effrinagh is a townland in County Leitrim

County Leitrim

County Leitrim is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the village of Leitrim. Leitrim County Council is the local authority for the county...

. Effrinagh is a place about five miles east of Carrick on Shannon. It remains a quiet place in spite of its proximity to the bustle and hustle of Carrick. It is dotted with lakes and traversed by boreen

Boreen

Boreen or bohereen is an anglicised, Hiberno-English term normally meaning a narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland. "Boreen" also appears sometimes in names of minor urban roads such as Saint Mobhi Bóithrín , commonly known as Mobhi Boreen in Glasnevin, Dublin....

s (from the Irish bóithrín, meaning a small road) the Council does not frequently maintain. James Gralton

James Gralton

Jimmy Gralton was an Irish communist leader, who became a United States citizen after emigrating in 1909.He returned to Ireland to fight in the Tan War, and later in 1932 to look after his parents, where he led the Revolutionary Workers' Group in Leitrim, a predecessor of the Communist Party of...

came from Effrinagh, where he built his Pearse-Connolly Hall before he was deported to New York.