Lisbellaw

Lisbellaw
  • Lios Béal Átha
Lisbellaw Parish Church
Lisbellaw is located in Northern Ireland
Lisbellaw
Lisbellaw
Location within Northern Ireland
Population1,106 (2011 census)
• Belfast78 miles
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townENNISKILLEN
Postcode districtBT94
Dialling code028, +44 28
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Fermanagh
54°19′01″N 7°32′13″W / 54.317°N 7.537°W / 54.317; -7.537

Lisbellaw (from Irish Lios Béal Átha, meaning 'ringfort at the ford-mouth')[1] is a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Enniskillen. In 2008 it had an estimated population of 1,277 people.

The village is built around the Church of Ireland parish church, which was built in the 18th century. The steep main street houses two grocery shop, a hairdressing salon, two pubs, a post office, a dentist's surgery, a beauty salon, a butcher, two mechanics, a pharmacy, a health store distributor, a chip shop, and a hardware store, as well as the Church of Ireland parish centre, the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. The Catholic church and a Plymouth Brethren gospel hall lie just off the main street. Just outside the village is Carrybridge, a marina on Upper Lough Erne.

Lisbellaw railway station opened on 16 August 1858 and shut down on 1 October 1957.[2]

  1. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
  2. ^ "Lisbellaw station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 28 October 2007.