Official Name: | Legland |
Irish Name: | Leithghleann |
Static Image Name: | Legland Knockmore.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | View of Legland and Knockmore, Boho, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland |
Map Type: | Northern Ireland |
Coordinates: | 54.3888°N -7.8822°W |
Irish Grid Reference: | H077489 |
Unitary Northern Ireland: | Fermanagh and Omagh |
Country: | Northern Ireland |
Postcode Area: | BT |
Postcode District: | BT |
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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Legland is a townland near Derrygonnelly, in the civil parish of Devenish, religious parish of Botha, barony of Magheraboy, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Legland has an area of 2,965,432 m² / 296.54 hectares / 2.9654 km², or 1.14 square miles, or 732.77 acres / 732 acres, 3 roods, 3 perches.[1]
Legland derives from the Irish Leith-ghleann or Leith-ghlionn, meaning "side of the glen", "half valley" or "half glen". The first record of the townland's name is from the Ordnance Survey map of 1609, where it transcribed as Leglan. Other documented versions of the townlands name are Leglan (1615), Laglan (1630), Leaglan (1630), Leagland (1630), Leglan (1630), Lehglenud (1630), Leth-ghleann (1834), Legland hill (1834) and Leith-ghlionn (1869).[2]