Fermanagh Postcodes — Northern Ireland (NIR)

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Description of Fermanagh

County Fermanagh is one of Ireland's 32 counties, Ulster's 9 counties, and Northern Ireland's 6 counties.

Enniskillen is the county seat and the main town in the county, with a population of 61,805 and an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) in 2011.

According to the most recent census (2011), Fermanagh is one of only four counties in all of Northern Ireland where Catholics make up a clear majority of the population.

Geography of Fermanagh

The County of Fermanagh can be found in the far southwest of Northern Ireland. It covers 1,851 square kilometers (715 square miles), or around 13% of Northern Ireland. Lakes and rivers, such as Upper and Lower Lough Erne and the River Erne, take up over a third of the county's total area. It is the only county in Northern Ireland that does not border Lough Neagh, and its 14% forest cover makes it the greenest.

Three major mountain ranges may be found in this county. Cuilcagh, the highest point in Fermanagh, is at 665 meters above sea level and is part of the Cuilcagh mountain range, which runs along the county's southern border. The Sliabh Beagh hills, located to the east on the Monaghan border, are another prominent geographical feature of Fermanagh.

Its jurisdictional confines are:The counties of Tyrone and Monaghan to the north, Cavan and Leitrim to the south, Donegal and Leitrim to the west, and Donegal and Leitrim to the north form its borders.

North of Lough Erne, you'll find the county's earliest deposits. Nearly 550 million years ago, these "red beds" were deposited. The eastern section of the county is largely composed of sandstone that was deposited 400 million years ago during the Devonian period. The majority of the county's sediments are Carboniferous shale and limestone, which formed between 354 and 298 Ma. The Shannon Cave, the Marble Arch Caves, and the Caves of the Tullybrack and Belmore Hills were all formed in areas with softer strata. Multiple counties in northwest Ireland, collectively called the Lough Allen basin, contain the carboniferous shale. 9.4 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, or 1.5 billion barrels of oil, are predicted to be present in the basin.

Killadeas-Seksinore Fault, Tempo-Sixmilecross Fault, Belcoo Fault, Clogher Valley Fault, and the Clogher Valley Fault, which cuts across Lough Erne, are the most notable of a series of prominent faults that the county is situated over.

History of Fermanagh

Ptolemy's 150 AD map of Ireland includes the Menapii, the only known Celtic tribe whose name appears on the map. The Menapii established their first colony, Menapia, on the Leinster coast in 216 BC. They ultimately moved near Lough Erne, where they took the name Fir Manach and from whom we get the counties of Fermanagh and Monaghan. Several traditions center on King Mongán mac Fiachnai of Ulster in the seventh century, with the two being linked by the figure of Manannán mac Lir. They dispersed all over the island and eventually developed into the several ancient Irish (and Scottish and Manx) clans.

Belle Isle in Lough Erne close to Lisbellaw is the location where the Annals of Ulster were composed. These chronicles span the period of medieval Ireland from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540.

Donn Carrach Maguire (died 1302), the first of the Maguire chiefs, established the Maguire dynasty in Fermanagh. Fermanagh, like the other five escheated counties, was split among Scottish and English undertakers and native Irish after the confiscation of lands related to Hugh Maguire. Scottish undertakers were given Knockninny and Magheraboy, English undertakers were given Clankelly, Magherastephana, and Lurg, and servitors and natives were given Clanawley, Coole, and Tyrkennedy. The new settlement primarily benefited the families of Cole, Blennerhasset, Butler, Hume, and Dunbar.

It wasn't until the Plantation of Ulster that Fermanagh was finally brought under civil government, despite the fact that it had been made into a county by a statute of Elizabeth I. Because of the 1957 closure of all Great Northern Railway (Ireland) lines within County Fermanagh, it became the first non-island county in the United Kingdom to be without a railroad.