Ballinamallard

Ballinamallard or Bellanamallard[1][2] (from Irish Béal Átha na Mallacht 'ford-mouth of the curses'[3]) is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

As of 2016 NISRA estimate that 2,754 people live in the Ballinamallard Electoral Ward, which encompasses a larger area than the settlement.

In 1500 two Maguire princes were ambushed by the O'Neills at Ballinamallard in their conflict and in 1539 the original Magheracross church destroyed by fire.

Following which Henry Folliot of Pyrton in Wiltshire, was granted the manor of Drumchine (later Newporton) including 1,500 Irish acres through Magheracross parish.

[citation needed] In the early 20th century, thousands of Cooneyites or "Dippers", followers of Edward Cooney and William Irvine, flocked to religious conventions at Crocknacrieve House near Ballinamallard.

Converts were baptised by immersing them in Lough Erne or tributary rivers, events which attracted large crowds and international attention.

[5][6] On the 16 October 1943 a Royal Air Force, Consolidated PBY Catalina (AH551) flying boat had departed RAF Killadeas on a training.

The former Great Northern Railway station was converted to become Rascal's PlayStation, a purpose-built child care centre; the Commons was transformed to a children's playground, and industrial units were established on Enniskillen Road.

[citation needed] The town of Ballinamallard is labelled as Super Data Zone Erne_North_E according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

The river