Where is Brookeborough?

Brookeborough is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3150°, -7.4060°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Brookeborough

Also known as: Achadh Lon

Brookeborough in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Main Street, Brookeborough - geograph.org.uk - 3224621 — Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Brookeborough 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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From the Wikipedia article

Brookeborough (; Irish: Achadh Lon, meaning 'Field of the Blackbirds') is a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, at the westerly foot of Slieve Beagh. It lies about eleven miles east of Enniskillen, just off the A4 trunk road, and about five miles west of the County Tyrone boundary. It is situated in the civil parish of Aghavea and the historic barony of Magherastephana. It is situated within Fermanagh and Omagh district. According to the 2021 census, Brookeborough had a population of 438. The economy is heavily dependent on cattle and sheep farming. There are five places of Christian worship; a Catholic church, a Methodist church (built in 1839), an Elim Pentecostal church, a Church of Ireland church and a Baptist church; two public houses; and two primary (elementary) schools.

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Background

History

Before the Plantation of Ulster the area of Brookeborough was known as Achadh Lon (anglicised as Aghalun), the townland in which it lies. It is believed that the Irish name refers to a "field of blackbirds". Aghalun was in the hands of the Maguire Clan until the 1641 rebellion when it was given to the Brooke family. The village was then named after Sir Henry Brooke, who was granted the village in 1666 and settled at Colebrooke Park nearby. On 1 January 1957 at 6.55pm, members of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) column led by Seán Garland, equipped with grenades and firebombs, launched an attack on Brookesborough Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks as part of the ongoing Border Campaign.…

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