Drummully

For other uses, see Drummully (disambiguation).

Boundary of Drummully electoral division in red, and the rest of the County Fermanagh-County Monaghan border in violet

54°8′35″N 7°18′35″W / 54.14306°N 7.30972°W / 54.14306; -7.30972

Drummully or Drumully (Irish: Droim Ailí;[1] "rocky ridge"[2]) is an electoral division (ED) in the west of County Monaghan in Ireland. Known as the Sixteen Townlands[3][4] to locals and as Coleman's Island[5] or the Clonoony salient[6] to the security forces, it is a pene-enclave almost completely surrounded by County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. Since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 (following the partition of Ireland in 1921), the Fermanagh–Monaghan border has formed part of the international border between the United Kingdom and what is now the Republic of Ireland, leaving Drummully as a practical enclave, connected to the rest of the republic only by an unbridged 110-metre (360 ft) length of the Finn River.[5][7] The area is accessed via the Clones–Butlersbridge road, numbered N54 in the Republic and A3 in Northern Ireland.

The civil parish of Drummully includes the Monaghan ED and the surrounding parts of Fermanagh; the townland of Drummully, with the ruins of the medieval parish church, lies in the Fermanagh portion of the parish.[2] The two county Fermanagh EDs separating Drummully from the republic are Clonkeelan to the east and Derrysteaton to the southwest.[8] The Connons is a name given sometimes to Drummully ED,[5][9] and sometimes to the entire district between Clones and Redhills, County Cavan, encompassing Clonkeelan, Drummully, and Derrysteaton.[4][8][10] Connons Catholic church and Connons community hall are in Drummully ED.

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  2. ^ a b "Drummully, County Fermanagh". Place Names NI. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Learyp31 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Kelly, Tom (12 August 2009). "Rededication of Connons church". Anglo Celt. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  5. ^ a b c McNally, Frank (18 September 2013). "Borderline Nationality Disorder". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  6. ^ Department of Foreign Affairs (25 July 1977). "TSCH 2007/116/757: Memorandum for the Government: Overflights by Foreign Military Aircraft" (PDF). Dublin: NAI Public Records. p. 4 no.6. Retrieved 27 March 2020 – via CAIN.; Collins, Stephen (28 December 2007). "Lynch allowed British military overflights". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  7. ^ Jennings, Ken (21 November 2016). "Ireland's Drummully Polyp Is Not a Sea Cucumber—It's an Island". Conde Nast Traveler. Conde Nast.
  8. ^ a b "The Boundaries of Administrative Counties, Co. Boroughs, Urban & Dispensary Districts & District Electoral Divisions; north-east sheet" (JPEG). Logainm.ie (revised ed.). Dublin: Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 1962 [1935].
  9. ^ Muhr, K (2004). "The place-names of County Fermanagh". In Murphy, Eileen M.; Roulston, William J. (eds.). Fermanagh: history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county. Geography Publications. p. 586. ISBN 9780906602522.
  10. ^ "President emphasises importance of community during Clones visit". Northern Standard. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2019. Mr Conlon described Connons as having a unique formation as it straddles the border with one third of it located in Co Monaghan and two-thirds of it in Co Fermanagh.