Belcoo is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.2960°, -7.8710°.

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Belcoo

Also known as: Béal Cú

Belcoo in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Main Street, Belcoo - geograph.org.uk - 5702821 — Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Belcoo 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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Belcoo ( (from Irish Béal Cú, meaning 'mouth of the narrow [stretch of water]') is a village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 10 miles (16 km) from Enniskillen. It is on the County Fermanagh/County Cavan border beside the village of Blacklion in the Republic of Ireland. It had a population (with Holywell) of 439 in the 2021 census. It is situated within the Fermanagh and Omagh District. The Lough MacNean Tourism Initiative has been in operation since 2003, and is an economy building project, aimed at addressing tourism needs in the area while promoting cross-border relations. Belcoo Enterprise Ltd opened in 1992 in units shared with the Belcoo Historical Society, a doctor's surgery, a chiropodist and Lakeland Community Care. The Mullycovet corn mill, which functioned from 1830 until the 1920s, is being restored. The Indigenous Resources School of Transferable Skills aims to teach marginalised groups including the unemployed, New Age travellers, the disabled, to use natural materials as a learning facility.

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History

The earliest mention of the village is in the old Ulster Saga "" also known as "" (Massacre of Belcu Brefne). This tells the tale of a trap set for the great Ulster hero Conall Cernach by a Breifne chief named Belcu Brefne. However Conall manages to reverse the trap and causes Belcu's sons to kill Belcu by mistake. The place where the tale occurs was later named Belcu or sometimes Belcon in honour of Belcu. Isaac Butler in his book "A Journey to Lough Derg" written in c. 1749 states- See "Dabhach Phádraig: St Patrick's Holy Well, Belcoo, County Fermanagh", by Mairead O'Dolain, in the Clogher Record, Volume 18, No. 1, pp. 103–116. (viewable on JSTOR). A modern interpretation however states…

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