County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.
The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 ...
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
Counterscarp
A scarp and a counterscarp are the inner and outer sides, respectively, of a ditch or moat used in fortifications. Attackers (if they have not bridged the ditch) must descend the counterscarp and ascend the scarp. In permanent fortifications th ...
Aghahoorin
Aghahoorin () is a townland in the area of Boho, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
As far back as 1659 (Census of Ireland) this townland was known as Agharrin; later on it was known as Achadh Guirthin or Achadh Urthin "field of the suret" (183 ...
Court tomb
The court cairn or court tomb is a megalithic type of chambered cairn or gallery grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BCE, more than 390 court cairns were built in Ireland and over 100 in southwest Scotland. The Neolithic (New Stone A ...
Aghanaglack
Aghanaglack or Aghnaglack (Place Names NI - Aghanaglack), is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho, as well as Fermanagh and Omagh district.
Etymology
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Aghanaglack
Aghanaglack or Aghnaglack (Place Names NI - Aghanaglack), is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho, as well as Fermanagh and Omagh district.
Etymology
Aghanaglack de ...
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Aghanaglack
Aghanaglack or Aghnaglack (Place Names NI - Aghanaglack), is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho, as well as Fermanagh and Omagh district.
Etymology
Aghanaglack de ...
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Souterrain
''Souterrain'' (from French ''sous terrain'', meaning "under ground") is a name given by archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the European Atlantic Iron Age.
These structures appear to have been brought north ...
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Aghanaglack
Aghanaglack or Aghnaglack (Place Names NI - Aghanaglack), is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho, as well as Fermanagh and Omagh district.
Etymology
Aghanaglack de ...
Banagher
Banagher ( or ''Beannchar na Sionna'') is a town in Ireland, located in the midlands, on the western edge of County Offaly in the province of Leinster, on the banks of the River Shannon. It had a population of 3,000 at the height of its econ ...
cist
A cist ( or ; also kist ;
from grc-gre, κίστη, Middle Welsh ''Kist'' or Germanic ''Kiste'') is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found across Europe and in the Middle Ea ...
cairn, grid ref: H1727 3108
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Bigwood Bigwood is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alfred Bigwood (1857–1940), English cricketer
* Fiona Bigwood (born 1976), British equestrian
* James Bigwood (1839–1919), English manufacturer and politician
* Jessie B ...
Black Pig's Dyke
The Black Pig's Dyke ( ga, Claí na Muice Duibhe) or Worm's Ditch ( ga, Claí na Péiste) is a series of discontinuous linear earthworks in southwest Ulster and northeast Connacht, Ireland. Remnants can be found in north County Leitrim, north Co ...
, Part of linear earthwork, in
Lislea
Lislea ( , ) is a small village and townland near Slieve Gullion in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the civil parish of Killevy and the historic barony of Orior Upper. Today it is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council a ...
townland, grid ref: H4836 2706
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Black Pig's Dyke
The Black Pig's Dyke ( ga, Claí na Muice Duibhe) or Worm's Ditch ( ga, Claí na Péiste) is a series of discontinuous linear earthworks in southwest Ulster and northeast Connacht, Ireland. Remnants can be found in north County Leitrim, north Co ...
Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, located widely from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea.
The ...
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* Bunnahone Lough, Crannogs (3), in Lenaghan townland, grid ref: Area of H100 553
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Carney Hill
Carney may refer to:
* Carney (surname)
Places
In the United States
* Carney, Maryland
* Carney, Michigan
* Carney, Montana
* Carney, Oklahoma
* Carney, West Virginia
* Carney, Pennsylvania
In the Republic of Ireland
* Carney, County S ...
, Platform rath, grid ref: H2247 3834
* Carnirk, Rath, grid ref: H0910 5474
* Carrick Church, Church and graveyard,
Aghamore
Aghamore () is a townland in County Leitrim, Ireland, located on the main N4 national primary road between Dublin and Sligo
Sligo ( ; ga, Sligeach , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo ...
Carrigan
Carrigan is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Loughtee Lower, County Cavan, Ireland.
Etymology
The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename ''Cairrig-ín'' which means 'A little rock or a rocky surface'. The olde ...
Wedge tomb
A gallery grave is a form of megalithic tomb built primarily during the Neolithic Age in Europe in which the main gallery of the tomb is entered without first passing through an antechamber or hallway. There are at least four major types of ga ...
Cup mark
Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France (Brittany), Portugal, and Spain ( Galicia) – and in Mediterranean Europe – Italy (in Al ...
henge
There are three related types of Neolithic earthwork that are all sometimes loosely called henges. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Because the internal ...
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
Derrygonnelly
Derrygonnelly () is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Near Lower Lough Erne, the village was home to 680 people at the 2011 Census This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th ...
Derrygonnelly
Derrygonnelly () is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Near Lower Lough Erne, the village was home to 680 people at the 2011 Census This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th ...
Devenish Island
Devenish or Devinish () is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Aligned roughly north–south, it is about one and a quarter miles (2 km) long and two-thirds of a mile (1 km) wide. The main place to catch a ferry ...
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Devenish Island
Devenish or Devinish () is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Aligned roughly north–south, it is about one and a quarter miles (2 km) long and two-thirds of a mile (1 km) wide. The main place to catch a ferry ...
Drumbrughas
Drumbrughas (Irish derived place name, ''Droim Brughais'', meaning the ‘Hill-Ridge of the Fort’) is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.
Geography
Drumbrughas is bounded on the north by Gort ...
Crannog
A crannog (; ga, crannóg ; gd, crannag ) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes and estuarine waters of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Unlike the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, which were bu ...
Eyes
Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and con ...
* Farrancassidy, Mound, grid ref: G9524 5614
* Faugher, Burnt mound, grid ref: H1719 4647
* Formil, Stone circle and alignments, grid ref: H1588 6758
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Galloon
Galloon (sometimes spelled galon in British English) is a heavily-decorated woven or braided trim, typically made of, or featuring, gold or silver thread, which may be woven or embroidered. Galloon trim is used in the trim of military and polic ...
, Church (site of), graveyard, two cross-shafts and bases, grid ref: H3907 2266
* Glasmullagh, Rath, grid ref: H3227 2237
* Glengesh,
Portal tomb
A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were som ...
Golan
Golan ( he, גּוֹלָן ''Gōlān''; ar, جولان ' or ') is the name of a biblical town later known from the works of Josephus (first century CE) and Eusebius (''Onomasticon'', early 4th century CE). Archaeologists localize the biblical ...
, Rath, grid ref: H4381 3029
* Gorteen, Barrow and cist (otherwise known as Danes fort), grid ref: H0803 3926
* Gortmaconnell, Platform rath, grid ref: H1305 3413
* Greenan, Wedge tomb: Giant’s Grave, grid ref: H1721 2923
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Inishkeen
Inniskeen, officially Inishkeen (), is a small village, townland and parish in County Monaghan, Ireland, close to the County Louth and County Armagh borders. The village is located about from Dundalk, from Carrickmacross, and from Crossmagl ...
, Church and graveyard, cross-shaft and base, grid ref: H2478 4127
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Inishmacsaint
Inishmacsaint () is a monastery located on an island off the western shore of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a monastic church and an early stone cross, probably from the tenth and twelfth centuri ...
Inishmacsaint
Inishmacsaint () is a monastery located on an island off the western shore of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a monastic church and an early stone cross, probably from the tenth and twelfth centuri ...
(Island), Area of 5.84 acres, including former enclosure of monastic site, grid ref: H165 541
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Inishmacsaint
Inishmacsaint () is a monastery located on an island off the western shore of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a monastic church and an early stone cross, probably from the tenth and twelfth centuri ...
Inishmacsaint
Inishmacsaint () is a monastery located on an island off the western shore of Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The site includes the ruins of a monastic church and an early stone cross, probably from the tenth and twelfth centuri ...
(Island), Barrow: Moat of Inis, grid ref: H1637 5440
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Inishmore
Inishmore ( ga, Árainn , or ) is the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, off the west coast of Ireland. With an area of and a population of 762 (as of 2016), it is the second-largest island off the Irish coast (after Achill) a ...
(or Davy’s Island), Church and enclosure, grid ref: H1741 5933
Killadeas
Killadeas () is a small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is about 7 miles north of Enniskillen near the shores of Lower Lough Erne, and is within Fermanagh and Omagh district. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 90 people. ...
ring cairn
A ring cairn (also correctly termed a ring bank enclosure, but sometimes wrongly described as a ring barrow) is a circular or slightly oval, ring-shaped, low (maximum 0.5 metres high) embankment, several metres wide and from 8 to 20 metres in ...
Kinawley
Kinawley or Kinawly () is a small village, townland (of 187 acres) and civil parish straddling County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and County Cavan, Republic of Ireland. The village and townland are both in the civil parish of Kinawley (founded b ...
Knockninny
Knockninny () is a barony in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. To its east lies Upper Lough Erne, and it is bordered by four other baronies in Northern Ireland: Clanawley to the north-west; Tirkennedy to the north; Magherastephana to the nort ...
Letterbreen
Letterbreen () is a hamlet in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is 5 miles southwest of Enniskillen on the main route to Sligo. It lies in the foothills of Belmore Mountain.
The hamlet has a Methodist church built in 1885, a Church of Irela ...
Lislea
Lislea ( , ) is a small village and townland near Slieve Gullion in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the civil parish of Killevy and the historic barony of Orior Upper. Today it is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council a ...
Lissan
Lissan () is a civil and Anglican and Roman Catholic ecclesiastical parish that spans parts of County Londonderry and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The local Roman Catholic church was built in 1908.
Sport
*Lissan GAC is the local Gaelic At ...
Lissan
Lissan () is a civil and Anglican and Roman Catholic ecclesiastical parish that spans parts of County Londonderry and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The local Roman Catholic church was built in 1908.
Sport
*Lissan GAC is the local Gaelic At ...
Monea
Monea () is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, about northwest of Enniskillen. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 114.
Transport
Ulsterbus route 59 provides several journeys a day to/from Enniskillen an ...
, Cist burial, grid ref: H1561 4932
* Monea Castle, Avenue and gardens, Castletown Monea townland, grid ref: H1647 4937
* Moneendogue, Counterscarp rath, G9301 5729
* Montiaghroe, Stone alignment, grid ref: H1932 6944
* Montiaghroe, Stone circle, grid ref: H1936 6932
* Montiaghroe, Stone alignment, grid ref: H1971 6902
* Mountdrum, Prehistoric ritual landscape, grid ref: Area of H308 432
* Mount Sedborough Lough, Crannog, in Dernaclug and Drumaa townlands, grid ref: H4452 3086
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Moylehid
Moylehid () is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho. This townland has also been variously known as Moylehide (1609), Moolet (1659), Moylehit, Mullyleet, Mul Leathaid and Mul- ...
Moylehid
Moylehid () is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho. This townland has also been variously known as Moylehide (1609), Moolet (1659), Moylehit, Mullyleet, Mul Leathaid and Mul- ...
Reyfad
Reyfad () is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It lies in the land division of Old Barr, in the civil parish of Boho, County Fermanagh, Boho. The townland has previously been called Rayfadd - 1659, Raffada (Magheryboy) - 1672 an ...
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Ring
Ring may refer to:
* Ring (jewellery), a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry
* To make a sound with a bell, and the sound made by a bell
:(hence) to initiate a telephone connection
Arts, entertainment and media Film and ...
Burnt mound/cooking place, grid ref: H2745 3855
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Roosky
Roosky, Ruskey, or Rooskey () is a village on the River Shannon in the northern midlands of Ireland, near the point where counties Leitrim, Longford, and Roscommon meet. The N4 road from Dublin to Sligo passes by the Leitrim side of the villa ...
Fermanagh
Historically, Fermanagh ( ga, Fir Manach), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of a ...
County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.
The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 ...