Bellanaleck (Flanagan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 182. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a small village in

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. It lies just south of

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on the main A509 ( N3) road towards

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and

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. In the 2011 census it had a population of 532. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th
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Fermanagh and Omagh Fermanagh and Omagh () is a local government district that was created on 1 April 2015 by merging Fermanagh District and Omagh District. It covers most of the Southwest of Northern Ireland. The local authority is Fermanagh and Omagh District ...

district.

Transport

Bellanaleck is a stop on the Donegal-

- Dublin Airport-

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''Expressway'' route 30. There is a coach in each direction every two hours during the day as well as an overnight journey. Services operate daily including Sundays.

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route 58 from

Belturbet Belturbet (; ) is a town in County Cavan, Ireland. It lies on the N3 road, around north of Cavan town and from Dublin. It is also located around south of the border with County Fermanagh, part of Northern Ireland, and is from Enniskillen. ...

via

Kinawley Kinawley or Kinawly () is a small village, townland (of 187 acres) and civil parish straddling County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and County Cavan, Republic of Ireland. The village and townland are both in the civil parish of Kinawley (founded b ...

also serves Bellanaleck several times a day, Mondays to Saturdays.

Demography

On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 532 people living in Bellanaleck, of whom * 58.46% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 33.83% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion; * 32.52% indicated that they had a British national identity, 40.60% had an Irish national identity and 28.95% had a Northern Irish national identity*. (* Respondents could indicate more than one national identity) * 11.53% had some knowledge of Irish; * 2.52% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and * 3.14% did not have English as their first language.

People

* Cathal McConnell, traditional

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player and singer, is from Bellanaleck. He is also a founding member of the famed international group The Boys of the Lough. * Father Brian D'Arcy,

Passionist The Passionists, officially named the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (), abbreviated CP, are a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men, founded by Paul of the Cross in 1720, with a special emphasis on a ...

priest and newspaper columnist, grew up in Bellanaleck. * Mickey MacConnell, musician and writer of the song ''Only Our Rivers Run Free''

References

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