placenamesLetterbreen
Leitir Bhruín
Family recollections connect the local congregation across generations.
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
- Leitir Bhruín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Letterbreen · English · main form
Place & story
Women and the congregation
An account by Stephen Mayes records how three Methodist Women leaders discovered that their mothers-in-law had all worshipped at Letterbreen. Dorothy Humphreys helped prepare and serve refreshments at meetings. Edith Carson walked from Corryglass to church and Sunday school with six siblings, attending for 25 years before her marriage. [2]
The crossroads
The district council’s countryside assessment identifies the Methodist church as the focus of a small crossroads settlement on the Enniskillen–Belcoo road, within a drumlin landscape. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Civil parish
- Cleenish and Islands
- Within
- Letterbreen
- Coordinates
- 54.30839, -7.73880 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413433 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Letterbreen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Family Connections in Letterbreen · Stephen Mayes, Methodist Church in Ireland
- Countryside Assessment: Letterbreen broad evaluation framework · Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.