Letterbreen Explained

Official Name:	Letterbreen
Irish Name:	Leitir Bhruín
Static Image Name:	Half Way Inn, Trillick - geograph.org.uk - 492444.jpg
Static Image Caption:	Half Way Inn
Map Type:	Northern Ireland
Coordinates:	54.31°N -7.735°W
Country:	Northern Ireland
Postcode Area:	BT
Dial Code:	028
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Letterbreen ^[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

2011 Census

The 2011 census combined the villages of Boho, Cleenish and Letterbeen into the same ward.^[6] On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Boho Cleenish And Letterbreen Ward was 3,185 accounting for 0.18% of the NI total.

99.40% were from the white (including Irish Traveller) ethnic group;
55.23% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 41.22% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion; and
38.15% indicated that they had a British national identity, 36.73% had an Irish national identity and 31.15% had a Northern Irish national identity*.
Respondents could indicate more than one national identity

On Census Day 27 March 2011, in Boho Cleenish And Letterbreen Ward, considering the population aged 3 years old and over:

11.88% had some knowledge of Irish;
4.13% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and
0.85% did not have English as their first language.

Notes and References

http://www.placenamesni.org/resultsdetail.phtml?entry=7847 Placenames NI
http://www.logainm.ie/59095.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland
Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (Comprising the Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone), Penguin, London, 1979 p.340-1
Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster, p.341
Web site: Archived copy . 2014-07-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140928123536/http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1360753125-066.pdf . 2014-09-28 .
Web site: Census 2011 Population Statistics for Boho Cleenish And Letterbreen Ward . NINIS . 21 December 2019. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.