Belleek

Famous for its pottery, which has been made here since 1857 and is known by the village's name the world over. The village sits where the Erne runs out towards the sea, and part of it crosses the river into Donegal, which is to say the border runs through it.

Belleek is named after a great flat limestone rock at the falls of the Erne, where legend has Fionn mac Cumhaill's men sharpening their swords; the rock and the falls were destroyed by drainage works in the 1880s. The Battle of the Erne Fords was fought here in 1593, in the run-up to the Nine Years' War. In the summer of 1922 the IRA occupied Belleek and Pettigo, and British troops sent in on Winston Churchill's orders shelled them out; the army stayed at the fort above the town until August 1924. The Boundary Commission would have moved Belleek into the Free State in 1925 had its recommendations been carried out.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Belleek ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Ballyshannon Castle · castle · 7 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Boa Island figures · Two-faced 'Janus' idols in a Lough Erne graveyard, thought to date from the Iron Age, perhaps older than Christianity in Ireland. Which god they show, nobody knows.
• Lough Derg (St Patrick's Purgatory) · A cave Patrick was said to have seen Purgatory in, medieval Europe's most famous pilgrimage; pilgrims still fast barefoot for three days on the island.
• Lough Erne — Érne’s flight · Érne was Medb’s lady-in-waiting at Cruachan. When something came up out of the cave of Oweynagat, she and her women ran north until the water took them, and their bodies dissolved into the lake that bears her name.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.