Leenane is a small sheltered hamlet at the south-east corner of Killary Harbour , the name in Irish is the poetical‘Lionan-chinnmhara’, the tide-filling spot at the head of the sea. In 1989, film director Jim Sheridan, chose Leenane as the main location for his screen adaptation of John B. Keane’s ‘The Field’, a drama of lust for land. For 2 months the village played host to the film-makers, headed by Richard Harris, Tom Berenger, John Hurt and Brenda Fricker and Sean Bean. Harris received an Academy Award nomination for his powerful portrayal of the farmer, Bull McCabe. There is also a cultural centre in the village incorporating a Sheep & Wool museum with different breeds of sheep grazing outside the centre