Kilskeery
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Kilskeery (Template:Irish derived place name)[1] is a small village and civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is between Ballinamallard and Trillick. In the 2021 census, it had a population of 55 people.Template:Fact Kilskeery is within the Omagh District Council area.
The Ballinamallard River flows through the village towards Lough Erne. The village has two graveyards within its boundaries. The "old" graveyard surrounded by stone walls has graves from the 19th century.
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Behind the church grounds is the local primary school, the Queen Elizabeth II. It has two classrooms and a dining hall, outside is the playing field and a school garden.
A row of houses, leading southwards from the church, is called Beatty Terrace. Opposite Beatty Terrace is the church hall. Built on the same site as an earlier hall, the new church hall is a larger and better-equipped building with a kitchen and an upstairs meeting room.Template:Fact At the end of Beatty Terrace is the village green.Template:Fact Just behind the village green is the 'old' graveyard.
The village extends out the Irvinestown road and at the cross can be found the post office.Template:Fact
In 2008, the speed limit within the village was changed to 30 mph.Template:Fact
Railway development
Kilskeery is near Bundoran Junction railway station which was the junction of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway. The Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway opened from Template:Rws on the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway near Kilskeery to Pettigo on 13 June 1866.[2] It was extended to Bundoran, County Donegal in 1868[3] and intended to continue to Template:Rws but failed to do so.[4] The Great Northern Railway ran the E&BR from 1876 and took it over in 1896.Template:Fact
Schools
Local schools include Queen Elizabeth II Primary School and the Free Presbyterian School.Template:Fact
See also
References
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- ↑ Placenames Database of Ireland
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- ↑ Hajducki, 1974, maps 6, 7
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