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An Leitir
Letter on Lower Lough Erne appears in both postal records and an IRA account of the fighting around Pettigo in 1922.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Leitir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Letter · English · main form
Place & story
The local post office
Letter had a post office in 1868, was a post town in 1905, and its office closed on 27 January 1999. [2]
Troops crossing Lower Lough Erne
An account preserved by the Bureau of Military History places Letter within the fighting around Pettigo inJune 1922. Its IRA witnesses recalled British troops being carried by commandeered boats to Boa Island and then across to Letter. Another force approached from Kesh towards Lowery, intending to join them. The account describes IRA positions at the Waterfoot resisting that junction. It records how the lake and its narrow land connections shaped the approaches to Pettigo. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Lurg
- Civil parish
- Templecarn
- Within
- Letter
- Coordinates
- 54.52424, -7.87643 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413432 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Letter. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- County Fermanagh post offices · Ken Smith, Great Britain Philatelic Society
- Bureau of Military History witness statement 711, account of Pettigo fighting, pp 3–4 · John Travers, James Scollan, Nicholas Smyth, Denis Monaghan and Felix McCabe; Bureau of Military History
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.