Letterbreen ()Placenames NI Placenames Database of Ireland is a small village 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 village has a Methodist church built in 1885,Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (Comprising the Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone), Penguin, London, 1979 p.340-1 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.Rowan, Alistair, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster, p.341
Transport Letterbreen is a request stop on the Bus Éireann Sligo-Manorhamilton-Enniskillen Expressway route 66. The coach stops at Sligo bus station which is beside Sligo railway station. Connecting trains from Sligo run to Dublin Connolly.
Demographics The 2011 census combined the villages of Boho, Cleenish and Letterbeen into the same ward. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright. 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.) 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.
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