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County Fermanagh, Ireland

Islands

Boa or Bow Island

description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

BOW, or BOA, ISLAND, partly in the parish of TEMPLECARNE, and partly in that of DRUMKEERAN, barony of LURG, county of FERMANAGH, and province of ULSTER, 2 miles (S.) from Pettigo; containing 382 inhabitants.

This island situated in the upper portion of Lower Lough Erne, comprises, according to the Ordnance Survey 1342 statute acres, of which nearly 787 are in Drumkeeran, and the remainder of the parish in Templecarne. The land is good, and the island is divided into a number of small farms varying from two to forty acres. There is a fine quarry of freestone. In the townland of Caldragh is a burial ground.

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