Ballinamallard

Ballinamallard
  • Irish: Béal Átha na Mallacht
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Ballinamallard is located in Northern Ireland
Ballinamallard
Ballinamallard
Location within Northern Ireland
Population1,364 (2021 Census)
Irish grid referenceH260528
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townENNISKILLEN
Postcode districtBT94
Dialling code028
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Fermanagh
54°25′19″N 7°35′42″W / 54.422°N 7.595°W / 54.422; -7.595

Ballinamallard or Bellanamallard[1][2] (from Irish Béal Átha na Mallacht 'ford-mouth of the curses'[3]) is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,364 people in the 2021 Census.[4] It lies to the north of Enniskillen and is within Fermanagh and Omagh district.

The village has won several "best kept village" titles, and has a fountain to mark the honour. There has been only one local primary school: Ballinamallard Controlled Primary School, since the other, Shanmullagh Primary School, closed in August 2008.

As of 2016 NISRA estimate that 2,754 people live in the Ballinamallard Electoral Ward, which encompasses a larger area than the settlement.

  1. ^ Placenames NI Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. ^ Flanagan, Deirdre & Laurence; Irish Place Names, page 172. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-7171-3396-6
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2021 population was invoked but never defined (see the help page).