County Fermanagh - Administration

Administration

Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1659 7,102
1821 130,997 +1744.5%
1831 149,763 +14.3%
1841 156,481 +4.5%
1851 116,047 −25.8%
1861 105,768 −8.9%
1871 92,794 −12.3%
1881 84,879 −8.5%
1891 74,170 −12.6%
1901 65,430 −11.8%
1911 61,836 −5.5%
1926 57,984 −6.2%
1937 54,569 −5.9%
1951 53,044 −2.8%
1961 51,531 −2.9%
1966 49,886 −3.2%
1971 50,255 +0.7%
1981 51,594 +2.7%
1991 54,033 +4.7%
2001 57,527 +6.5%

Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after. The district council also contains a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore and Kilskeery road areas.

Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.

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