Enniskillen
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Enniskillen Inis Ceithleann |
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| Part of the country | Northern Ireland | |||
| county | Fermanagh | |||
| District | Fermanagh and Omagh | |||
| Residents | 13,790 (2011) | |||
| Geographical location | 54 ° 21 ′ N , 7 ° 38 ′ W | |||
| POSTCODE: | BT74, BT92-94 | |||
| Website | Enniskillen | |||
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| Main street of Enniskillen with the cathedral in the background |
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Enniskillen ( Irish Inis Ceithleann ) is a city in Northern Ireland . It was the administrative seat of the historic County of Fermanagh and is now one of the two administrative seats of the districts of Fermanagh and Omagh . The city is located on an island that separates the two parts of Lough Erne - the smaller Upper Lough from the much larger Lower Lough. The “ Shannon-Erne Waterway ” provides a connection to the Shannon via 16 locks . It reopened in 1993. Enniskillen is also home to the headquarters of the bi-national authority Waterways Ireland and the Saint Macartin Cathedral of the Anglican diocese of Clogher.
With 13,790 inhabitants (2011) Enniskillen is the largest city and the economic center of the county. At the 2001 Census , 61.5% of the population were Catholic and 36.3% Protestant.
history
Enniskillen was largely untouched by the Northern Ireland conflict until 1987 , when a bomb killed 11 civilians in November of that year. The IRA confessed to the attack but admitted it had made a mistake because the bomb was targeted at British soldiers but exploded too soon. Fifteen years later, the Clinton Center was opened on the scene , and it houses one of Northern Ireland's six youth hostels . In 2013, Enniskillen hosted the G8 summit .
Portora Royal School
The Portora Royal School with boarding school, founded in 1618 and closed in 2016, was located in Enniskillen . As a result, some later celebrities spent part of their youth in the city; including James Gamble , Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett .
Worth seeing
Town twinning
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Bielefeld (originally with the Bielefeld-Brackwede district ), North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , since 1958
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Sigismund Macquire von Inniskillen (1710 or 1711–1767), Imperial and Royal General Feldzeugmeister
- Bobby Kerr (1882–1963), track and field athlete, Olympic champion and sports official
- Charles Duff (1894–1966), writer, translator and editor
- Joan Trimble (1915–2000), composer and pianist
- Dermot Patrick O'Mahony (1935–2015), auxiliary bishop in Dublin
- Ciarán McMenamin (* 1975), actor
- Roy Carroll (* 1977), goalkeeper of the Northern Irish national football team
- Michael McGovern (* 1984), football player
- Kyle Lafferty (born 1987), soccer player
- Andrew Little (born 1989), football player
- Sommer Lecky (* 2000), Irish high jumper
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of Enniskillen - Based on 2001 Census at Northern Ireland Neighborhood Information Service (NINIS, accessed December 19, 2011).
- ↑ “The Clinton Center” (YH for overnight stays only) (English)
