Where is County Fermanagh?

County Fermanagh is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3500°, -7.6300°.

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County Fermanagh

Also known as: Swydd Fermanagh, Contae Fhear Manach

County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Collegiate School, Enniskillen, Fermanagh - geograph.org.uk - 71895 — Rosemary Nelson — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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County Fermanagh 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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County Fermanagh (, fər-MAN-ə; from Irish Fir Manach / Fear Manach, meaning 'men of Manach') is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and had a population of 63,585 as of 2021. Enniskillen is the county town and largest in both size and population. Fermanagh is one of four counties of Northern Ireland to have a majority of its population from a Catholic background, according to the 2011 census.

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History

The Menapii are the only known Celtic tribe specifically named on Ptolemy's 150 AD map of Ireland, where they located their first colony—Menapia—on the Leinster coast . They later settled around Lough Erne, becoming known as the Fir Manach, and giving their name to Fermanagh and Monaghan. Mongán mac Fiachnai, a 7th-century King of Ulster, is the protagonist of several legends linking him with Manannán mac Lir. They spread across Ireland, evolving into historic Irish (also Scottish and Manx) clans. The Annals of Ulster which cover medieval Ireland between AD 431 to AD 1540 were written at Belle Isle on Lough Erne near Lisbellaw. In the early 9th century, the Erne was considered to be the…

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