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Population
  
1,277 (2008 estimate)

County
  
County Fermanagh

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Local time
  
Saturday 6:54 PM

Dialling code
  
28

Irish grid reference
  
H301410

Country
  
Northern Ireland

Post town
  
ENNISKILLEN

Province
  
Ulster

Lisbellaw

Weather
  
12°C, Wind SW at 18 km/h, 95% Humidity

District
  
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

Ni assembly
  
Fermanagh and South Tyrone

UK parliament constituency
  
Fermanagh and South Tyrone

Lisbellaw (from Irish: Lios Béal Átha, meaning "ringfort at the ford-mouth") 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.

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Map of Lisbellaw, Enniskillen, UK

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 Roman Catholic church building and a Plymouth Brethren gospel hall lie just off the main street. Just outside the village is Carrybridge, a marina on Upper Lough Erne.

A Lisbellaw railway station opened on August 16, 1858 and shut down on 1 October 1957.

Population

Lisbellaw is classified as a village by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. A census performed on April 29, 2001 revealed a population of 1,046 people living in Lisbellaw. Of these:

  • 24.0% were aged under 16 years and 16.7% were aged 60 and over
  • 48.7% of the population were male and 51.3% were female
  • 91.9% were from a Protestant and other Christian background (including Christian related community background)
  • 7.3% of the population were from a Catholic Community Background
  • 5.7% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed
  • References

    Lisbellaw Wikipedia