The county covers an area of 1, 691 km² ( 653 sq ; mi ), with a population of approximately 57, 527, with Enniskillen its county town.

The main town of Fermanagh is Enniskillen (, ' Ceithleann's island ').

The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

Enniskillen (, ) is a town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Enniskillen and Derry were the two garrisons in Ulster that were not wholly loyal to James II, it was the last town to fall before the siege of Derry.

As a direct result of this conflict Enniskillen developed not only as a market town but also as a garrison, which became home to two regiments.

The Irish singer / songwriter Tommy Makem wrote a lighthearted song about the town, " Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen ," covered by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and The Dubliners.

Enniskillen is classified as a " medium town " by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) ( i. e. with population between 10, 000 and 18, 000 people ).

Data has also more recently been collected from Enniskillen Airport / St Angelo, under 4 miles to the North of the town centre, which should, in time, give a more accurate representation of the climate of the Enniskillen area.

It is likely Enniskillen town centre is significantly less frosty than this.

The town of Enniskillen lies on the short stretch of the river between the lakes.

Kells was a renowned traffic bottleneck from both the N3 national primary route ( Dublin, Cavan, Enniskillen and Ballyshannon ) and N52 national secondary route ( Dundalk, Tullamore and Nenagh ) passing though the town centre.

* Just outside the town of Kells on the road to Oldcastle is the hill of Lloyd, named after Thomas Lloyd of Enniskillen, who camped a large Williamite army here during the wars of 1688-91 against the Jacobites.

The town is on the main road-the N3 road-linking Dublin ( to the south ) with Enniskillen, Ballyshannon and Donegal Town ( to the north ).

The town, an enclave within Enniskillen Township, is billed as " Canada's Victorian Oil Town " and is often credited with starting the oil industry in North America.

The place separated from Enniskillen Township and was incorporated as a town on December 25 of that same year.

The opening of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway ( E & BR ) in 1868 connected Bundoran railway station with Ireland's growing railway network and made the town more accessible from Belfast, Dublin and other population centres on the east and north-east coasts of Ireland.

The town is served by a number of Bus Éireann routes including the Sligo to Enniskillen route 66, Expressway service.

The East Riding of the county of Lambton was initially defined to consist of the townships of Enniskillen, Brooke, Warwick and Bosanquet, the town of Petrolia, and the villages of Oil Springs, Alvinston, Watford, Arkona and Thedford.

* the part of the county of Lambton contained in the townships of Brooke, Dawn, Enniskillen, Euphemia, Sombra, and Warwick, including the town of Forest, Walpole Island, St. Ann Island and the other islands at the mouth of the St. Clair River ; and

McGovern joined Celtic in July 2001 from home town junior club Enniskillen Town United.

The town of Enniskillen is mostly situated on an island in the river, between Upper and Lower Lough Erne.

The siting on the comparatively small 1200 acre ( 5 km² ) estate in County Fermanagh was primarily due to its unspoilt rural location and natural beauty amongst ancient oak woodland and small lakes, yet with proximity to the market town of Enniskillen for the domestic labour necessary for a large mansion.

One day he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire day listening, while his family spent the day looking.

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

, meaning " town of the hurdled ford ", is the common name for the city in modern Irish.

Irish town, Sligoville, Kildare, Leinster Road and Belfast.

There were a number of monasteries in and around the town, including a Benedectine monastery after which the Barfussgässchen ( Barefoot Alley ) is named and a monastery of Irish monks near the present day Ranstädter Steinweg ( old Via Regia ).

* 1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops ( under Oliver Cromwell ) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2, 000 Irish Confederate troops and 1, 500 civilians.

His most popular programs included a re-creation of Sandrine's bar, an Irish town called Fair Haven, and a 1930s-era sci-fi movie serial entitled Captain Proton.

Kelley lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, a town with 4, 500 Irish immigrants, 1, 900 English immigrants, and 700 Scottish immigrants in 1920.

* August 15 – Irish War of Independence: The town hall of Templemore, Ireland, is burned down during the riots.

* February 21 – 26 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring ; the force is defeated ( and Thurot killed ) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on February 28.

The Irish County Kildare derives its name from the town of Kildare which originally in Irish was Cill Dara meaning the Church of the Oak or Oak Church.

The parliament was moved to the town in 1494 and passed Poynings ' Law, the most significant legislation in Irish history, a year later.

The town was besieged twice during the Irish Confederate Wars.

A local myth has it that the star and crescent were included in the town arms after the Ottoman Empire ( predecessor to the Republic of Turkey ) sent ships laden with food to Drogheda during the Irish famine.

French, Scottish, Irish, and Germans migrated to the developing seacoast town, representing numerous Protestant denominations, as well as Roman Catholicism and Judaism.

The present day town of Maynooth in County Kildare is named after Nuada ( its Irish name is Maigh Nuad, meaning The plain of Nuada ).

Until the Act of Union took effect in 1801 and the abolition of its franchise, the town returned two members to the Irish Parliament.

In 1929, a few years after the foundation of the Irish Free State, the town was renamed Portlaoighise ( later simplified to Portlaoise ) and the county was renamed County Laois.

Since their respective declines, the government has been one of the major employers in the town: the maximum-security Port Laoise Prison, which houses the majority of the Irish Republican political prisoners sentenced in the Republic, the Midlands Prison, and the Department of Agriculture are all large-scale employers in the town.

* Portlaoise stands at a major crossroads in the Irish roads ( major roads to Dublin, Limerick, Cork ) network although construction in the 1990s of the M7 motorway, which bypasses the town, has reduced traffic congestion in the town centre.