Fermanagh, an Irish county in the SW. corner of Ulster, of a hilly surface, especially in the W.; is well wooded, and produces indifferent crops of oats, flax, and potatoes; some coal and iron, and quantities of limestone, are found in it; the Upper and Lower Loughs Erne form a waterway through its centre; chief town, Enniskillen.
Population (circa 1900) given as 74,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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