Lack, County Fermanagh

Human settlement in Northern Ireland

List of places: UK; Northern Ireland; Fermanagh

54°32′46″N 7°34′37″W / 54.546°N 7.577°W / 54.546; -7.577

Lack (from Irish An Leac, meaning 'the flagstone') is a small village and townland (of 224 acres) in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, 5.5 km east-north-east of Ederny.^[1] It is situated in the civil parish of Magheraculmoney and the historic barony of Lurg.^[2] It had a population of 111 people (50 households) in the 2011 Census.^[3] (2001 Census: 114 people).

Places of interest

Airtricity built a wind farm on Tappaghan Hill in the townland of Glenarn, near Lack.^[4] It was commissioned in February 2005 and yields 19.5MW of electricity, enough to power about 12,000 houses.

References

^ "Lack, County Fermanagh". Place Names NI. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ "Lack, County Fermanagh". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ "Lack". Census 2011 Results. NI Statistics and Research Agency. Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
^ "Airtricity - Lack". Archived from the original on 22 March 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2006.

External links

A Little History of Lack (archived 2001)
Ederney.com - Community web site for the Glendarragh Valley area/Fermanagh Erne Lakelands Tourism info (archived 2011)