Where is Ballinamallard?

Ballinamallard is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4202°, -7.5949°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Ballinamallard

Ballinamallard in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Plaque, Fisher Engineering footbridge (1) - geograph.org.uk - 1382941 — Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Ballinamallard is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Ballinamallard or Bellanamallard (from Irish Béal Átha na Mallacht 'ford-mouth of the curses') is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,364 people in the 2021 Census. It lies to the north of Enniskillen and is within Fermanagh and Omagh district. The village has won several "best kept village" titles, and has a fountain to mark the honour. There has been only one local primary school: Ballinamallard Controlled Primary School, since the other, Shanmullagh Primary School, closed in August 2008. As of 2016 NISRA estimate that 2,754 people live in the Ballinamallard Electoral Ward, which encompasses a larger area than the settlement.

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Background

History

Magheracross Parish is said to have been founded by St Patrick in about AD 450. In about AD 550 St Columba passed thorough Ballinamallard. The first records of the parish itself were in 1492 with Terence Macgillacossgli (McCusker/Cosgrave/Cuskelly) is recorded as vicar of Magheracross and Derrybrusk, Maghercross was at that time part of Derryvullen parish. In 1500 two Maguire princes were ambushed by the O'Neills at Ballinamallard in their conflict and in 1539 the original Magheracross church destroyed by fire. 1593 saw the start of Hugh O'Neill's war that resulted in the Flight of the Earls in 1611. Following which Henry Folliot of Pyrton in Wiltshire, was granted the manor of Drumchine…

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