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Enniskillen (/ ˌ ɛ n ɪ s ˈ k ɪ l ən / EN-iss-KIL-ən, from Irish: Inis Ceithleann [2] [ˈɪnʲɪʃ ˈcɛlʲən̪ˠ], 'Ceithlenn's island') is the largest town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the middle of the county, between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of 14,086 at the 2011 Census. [3]
Land area (km 2) [4] Density (/km 2) Classification [2] Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area [a] Antrim and Newtownabbey Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Ards and North Down: County Antrim County Down: 704,406: Belfast Urban Area [b] Antrim and Newtownabbey Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh: County Antrim County Down: 450,386: 1 ...
Fermanagh spans an area of 1,851 km 2 (715 sq; mi), accounting for 13.2% of the landmass of Northern Ireland. Nearly a third of the county is covered by lakes and waterways, including Upper and Lower Lough Erne and the River Erne .
The number of Orthodox Christians in Northern Ireland is estimated at 3000 followers. [1] These figures based on the 2021 census at district level mask wide variations on smaller scales. [2] In the Belfast City Council and Derry and Strabane District Council areas, the figures at ward level vary from 99% Protestant to 92% Catholic.
Boho (pronounced / b oʊ / BOH, [1] from Irish Botha, meaning 'huts') [2] is a hamlet and a civil parish 11 kilometres (7 mi) covering approximately 12 km × 7 km (7 mi × 4 mi) southwest of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. [3]
(See List of Irish local government areas 1898–1921 for a historical list of districts in all of Ireland.) At the time of Northern Ireland's creation in 1921, Ireland as a whole was divided into thirty-three administrative counties and six county boroughs; the administrative counties were in turn subdivided into several boroughs, urban ...
The BT postcode area, also known as the Belfast postcode area, [2] covers all of Northern Ireland and was the last part of the United Kingdom to be coded, between 1970 and 1974. [ citation needed ] This area is a group of 82 postcode districts in Northern Ireland, within 44 post towns and around 47,227 live postcodes.
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of Ulster from ...