Letterbreen

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Letterbreen
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Half Way Inn
Letterbreen is located in Northern Ireland
Letterbreen
Letterbreen
Location within Northern Ireland
Population92 (2011 Census)[citation needed]
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Postcode districtBT
Dialling code028
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Fermanagh
54°18′36″N 7°44′06″W / 54.310°N 7.735°W / 54.310; -7.735Coordinates: 54°18′36″N 7°44′06″W / 54.310°N 7.735°W / 54.310; -7.735

Letterbreen (from Irish: Leitir Bhruín, meaning 'Bruín's hillside')[1][2] 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,[3] a Church of Ireland church hall, a shop, a post office, a pub and several houses. It is served by a primary school at nearby Florencecourt. Letterbreen Court House was located a mile west of Letterbreen crossroads, in one of the wings of Summerhill house.[4]

Transport

Letterbreen is a request stop on the Bus Éireann Sligo-Manorhamilton-Enniskillen Expressway route 66.[5] The coach stops at Sligo bus station which is beside Sligo railway station. Connecting trains from Sligo run to Dublin Connolly Irish Rail - Official site

2011 Census

The 2011 census combined the villages of Boho, Cleenish and Letterbeen into the same ward.[6] On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Boho Cleenish And Letterbreen Ward was 3,185 accounting for 0.18% of the NI total.

  • 99.40% were from the white (including Irish Traveller) ethnic group;
  • 55.23% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 41.22% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion; and
  • 38.15% indicated that they had a British national identity, 36.73% had an Irish national identity and 31.15% had a Northern Irish national identity*.
  • Respondents could indicate more than one national identity

On Census Day 27 March 2011, in Boho Cleenish And Letterbreen Ward, considering the population aged 3 years old and over:

  • 11.88% had some knowledge of Irish;
  • 4.13% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and
  • 0.85% did not have English as their first language.

References

  1. ^ Placenames NI Archived 2012-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. ^ Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (Comprising the Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone), Penguin, London, 1979 p.340-1
  4. ^ Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster, p.341
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Boho Cleenish And Letterbreen Ward". NINIS. Retrieved 21 December 2019. File:UKOpenGovernmentLicence.svg This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.