When you search for “fife and drum band” on the Leitrim local studies system, you are given 95 results which is quite a lot considering that there are currently no fife and drum bands in the county. Even Kiltubrid who boasts the longest running pipe band in the county, had a fife and drum band which was formed in 1933.
Whilst some of the bands only get a mention as having appeared at some occasion or other (usually a sporting event or perhaps at a land league meeting), we have a more comprehensive account of others courtesy of various local publications.
And there are more….
