placenamesMagheracross
Machaire na Croise
Lewis distinguished Ballinamallard’s February fair from two listed fairs that were no longer kept.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Machaire na Croise · Irish · main form
- Magheracross · English · main form
Place & story
A calendar with one surviving fair
Ballinamallard, in Magheracross parish, had three fair dates in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account: 12 February, 5 August and 28 November. He explicitly stated that only the February fair was still kept, describing it as a good fair for horses. The village also had a penny-post connection with Enniskillen and Omagh. His account therefore distinguishes an active trading occasion from dates that remained in the fair calendar without corresponding gatherings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Lurg
- Barony
- Tirkennedy
- Coordinates
- 54.39775, -7.56885 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 42.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58938 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magheracross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynamallard: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-11-16. How this page was prepared.