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668:, were located in the Derrylin/Ballyconnell and surrounding Areas. At one stage before World War I(When Derrylin had a fairly high population) there were as many as 5 teams in the Derrylin area itself. "Knockninney Harps" A Team that existed in the 1920s and 1930s won 2 County Senior Championships with a team that included the McDonnell Brothers. Some time later, due mainly to emigration, there was no team in Derrylin and star players such as Paddy Maguire and Sonny Gunn instead played for Lisnaskea, who were a very successful team from the 1930 through to the 1950s. Derrylin is the current home place of Derrylin O'Connells GAA Club which fields teams at all age groups up to adult. Currently there are eight teams registered. The club crest features a Blackbird perched on an oak leaf (reflecting the village nomenclature). A ladies football team called Knockninny Gaels is also based there. In 2023 a fully lit one kilometre tarmac walking track was constructed around the perimeter of the club grounds in O’Connell Park. The Erne Boxing Club has its training facility in the village and the recently organised Rock Runners cross community athletic club currently uses the facilities of the GAA Club. The village also hosts an underage hurling club called Naomh Aodhan GAC. 636:
Total IT Solutions, McCorry Agri Supplies, JP Corry Hardware, Blake's Pub and restaurant, Knockninny Country House and Marina, JM Engineering (Pig Pens and Lorry Accessories), Drumm Engineering, Barrett's Bathrooms & Tiles, Malone and Smyth Kitchens and Furniture and Lunneys Furniture Sales. There is an extensive range of small family-run businesses and local services in the village, including garages and fuel supplies, supermarkets, convenience stores, off licences, hair and beauty parlours, opticians, accountants, pharmacy, medical centre, dentists, childcare, churches and sheltered housing for senior citizens. The village has a post office, located in the Spar Supermarket and a thriving Credit Union office on the main street, as well as a Bureau de Change nearby.
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packaging and manufacture of plastic containers. Products are exported world wide and it is not unusual for a Derrylin exile on a building site in London or New York to handle a bag of cement or an insulation panel made by a relative from their native village. A glass plant also located in the village, is run by Encirc, which provides bottles for the drinks industry. Every bottle used by Baileys Liqueur is manufactured in the glass plant in Derrylin. The businesses employ about 2000 people locally.
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Derrylin is home to one of Fermanagh's largest industrial facilities, namely the Mannok cement plant, which manufactures a wide range of building products such as cement, pre-stressed concrete units, rooftiles, ready mix concrete and tarmac. It also manufactures insulation products and is involved in
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Other local businesses include; McCaffrey Quarries, Ernecast (Precast concrete products), Crust'n'Crumb, which makes pizzas, Teemore Engineering, Steel Solutions, Ernco Signs, Erne Lifting, A1 Transport(Road Haulage), Eco Systems Direct (Solar Energy), Gilleece Crane Hire, Erne Concrete Pumping,
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Expressway route 30 and 30X which run alternatively. There is a coach in each direction every ninety minutes during the day as well as an overnight journey making 13 in all. Recent changes to the route mean that only the 30 bus stops in the village so in effect there is a 3-hour gap in stops.
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On the southern slope of Knockninny Hill, about a mile north of Derrylin village, can be seen the ruins of Corratrasna Castle (or Corratrasna House), a relatively small
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in the 1630s and early 1640s. The ruins of the fortified house now sit in a small field, directly behind a modern farmhouse, just off a sideroad in the
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12.62% indicated that they had a British national identity, 52.05% had an Irish national identity and 26.50% had a Northern Irish national identity.
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On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Derrylin Settlement was 634 accounting for 0.04% of the NI total. Of which:
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Derrylin is home to St Aidan's High School and St Ninnidh's Primary School and Kindertee Community Playgroup.
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The village has several historical features, including the Callowhill
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and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion; and
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also serves Derrylin several times a day Mondays to Saturdays.
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in the 1830s, states that the 'castle' may have been built for
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Another local tradition, recorded by the Irish Office of the
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that was probably built around 1611, at the start of the
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religion and 10.41% belong to or were brought up in a '
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Derrylin is located in Northern Ireland
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Fermanagh and Omagh
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