Ballinamore (Irish: Béal an Átha Móir) is a small town in County Leitrim, Ireland, 21 km (13 mi) from the border with Northern Ireland. It is located on the R202 regional road where it is joined by the R199 and R204. Béal an Átha Móir means ‘mouth of the big ford’. This is because it was the main crossing point of the Yellow River which flows past the town. This waterway become known as the Ballinamore-Ballyconnell canal, built to link the Rivers Erne and Shannon in the 1840s. It reopened as the Shannon-Erne Waterway in 1994.