Brookeborough

Brookeborough (/brʊkˈbʌrə/; Irish: Achadh Lon, meaning 'Field of the Blackbirds'[2]) is a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, at the westerly foot of Slieve Beagh.

On 1 January 1957 at 6.55pm, members of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) column led by Seán Garland, equipped with grenades and firebombs, launched an attack on Brookesborough Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks as part of the ongoing Border Campaign.

[5] In 2002, the Brookeborough Community Development Association, in conjunction with a similar organisation in Riverstown, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, launched the Riverbrooke Cross-Border Initiative linking the two villages in a programme of cross-community/cross-border working.

[13] Its route started in Maguiresbridge, passing through Brookebrough, Fivemiletown, Clogher, Augher, Ballygawley, Aughnacloy before eventually terminating at Tynan near Caledon.

As of the 2001 census, Brookeborough was classified as a small village or hamlet by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with a population of between 500 and 1,000 people).