| Official Name: | Brookeborough |
| Irish Name: | Achadh Lon[1] |
| Static Image Name: | The Lady Brook Memorial Hall, Brookeborough - geograph.org.uk - 912428.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Lady Brooke Memorial Hall, Brookeborough |
| Map Type: | Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates: | 54.315°N -7.406°W |
| Label Position: | right |
| Belfast Distance: | 69miles |
| Population: | 517 |
| Population Ref: | (2001 census) |
| Irish Grid Reference: | H380410 |
| Unitary Northern Ireland: | Fermanagh and Omagh |
| Country: | Northern Ireland |
| Post Town: | Enniskillen |
| Postcode Area: | BT |
| Postcode District: | BT94 |
| Dial Code: | 028 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Fermanagh and South Tyrone |
| Constituency Ni Assembly: | Fermanagh and South Tyrone |
| Lieutenancy Northern Ireland: | County Fermanagh |
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Brookeborough (; Irish: Achadh Lon, meaning 'Field of the Blackbirds'[2]) 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.[3] It is situated within Fermanagh and Omagh district.
According to the 2001 census, Brookeborough had a population of 517. 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.
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, there was an attack on Brookeborough Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Barracks by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during its 1950s Border Campaign. This attack was led by Seán Garland, and included Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon, who were both mortally wounded during the attack.
In 2002, the Brookeborough Community Development Association, in conjunction with a similar organisation in Riverstown, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, launched the Riverbrooke Cross-Border Initiative linking the two villages in a programme of cross-community/cross-border working.
The Clogher Valley Railway, ran through the village from 1887 (Brookeborough station opened on 2 May 1887) until its closure on 1 January 1942.[11] Its route started in Maguiresbridge, passing through Brookebrough, Fivemiletown, Clogher, Augher, Ballygawley, Aughnacloy before eventually terminating at Tynan near Caledon.
The main road to Belfast bypassed the village in the mid-1960s.
As of the 2001 census, Brookeborough was classified as a small village or hamlet by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with a population of between 500 and 1,000 people). On census day 29 April 2001, there were 517 people living in Brookeborough. Of these:[12]
In his youth Roy Carroll, the Northern Ireland international goalkeeper, played for the Brookeborough football team.
The local Gaelic Athletic Association team is known as Brookeborough Heber MacMahon's Gaelic Football Club. It is named after Dr. Heber MacMahon (1600–1650), Bishop of Clogher, a Catholic prelate who was executed during the Irish Confederate Wars. The team has never won honours at Senior Championship level but has won a number of Junior, Under-age and Intermediate Level competitions.
