Letterbreen

Letterbreen

Half Way Inn
Letterbreen
Letterbreen shown within Northern Ireland
Population ? (2001 Census)
District
County
Country Northern Ireland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district BT
Dialling code 028
EU Parliament Northern Ireland
UK Parliament
NI Assembly

Letterbreen (from Irish: Leitir Bhruín, meaning "Bruín's hillside")[1][2] is a hamlet in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is 5 miles southwest of Enniskillen on the main route to Sligo. It lies in the foothills of Belmore Mountain.

The hamlet has a Methodist church built in 1885[3], a Church of Ireland church hall, a shop, a post office, a pub and several houses. It is served by a primary school at nearby Florencecourt. Letterbreen Court House was located a mile west of Letterbreen crossroads, in one of the wings of Summerhill house.[4]

Transport

Letterbreen is a request stop on the Bus Éireann Sligo-Manorhamilton-Enniskillen Expressway route 66. [5] The coach stops at Sligo bus station which is beside Sligo railway station. Connecting trains from Sligo run to Dublin Connolly Irish Rail - Official site

References

  1. ↑ Placenames NI Archived 2012-06-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. ↑ Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (Comprising the Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone), Penguin, London, 1979 p.340-1
  4. ↑ Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster, p.341
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2014-07-06.


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