Belcoo

The Lough McNean Tourism Initiative has been in operation since 2003, and is an economy building project, aimed at addressing tourism needs in the area while promoting cross-border relations. Belcoo Enterprise Ltd opened in 1992 in units shared with the Belcoo Historical Society, a doctor’s surgery, a chiropodist and Lakeland Community Care. The Mullycovet corn mill, which functioned from 1830 until the 1920s, is being restored. The Indigenous Resources School of Transferable Skills aims to teach marginalised groups including the unemployed, new age travellers, the disabled, to use natural materials as a learning facility.

1 History
- 1.1 The Troubles
2 Transport
3 References
4 See also

[edit] History

The name of the village derives from the Irish: béal meaning mouth and cumhang or cung meaning narrowing, referring to the village's position on a narrow neck of water (river) between Upper and Lower Lough Macnean. Another often used derivation is Béal Cú ie where Cú is the word for hound. Hence the village name would mean the mouth of the hound, which seems unlikely.

[edit] The Troubles

For more information see The Troubles in Belcoo, which includes a list of incidents in Belcoo during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities.

[edit] Transport

In 1878 a stationmaster’s house and six houses were built for railway workers and their families and the following year the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway line opened with Belcoo station serving both Belcoo and Blacklion. The last trains ran through the station on 20 September 1957.