Belleek Village - the website for information on all local Belleek News, activities and events
Belleek & District
Community Partnership
Unit 2
The Craft Village
Belleek, Co. Fermanagh
t. 0286-865-9178
f. 0286-865-9173
email here
Welcome to Belleek
Belleek, from the Gaelic ‘Beal Leice’ (Mouth of the Flagstone), is the perfect choice for a day trip or holiday, long or short. Steeped in history, Belleek offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy many attractions, both in the village itself and in the surrounding areas. Visitors can enjoy breathtaking views, fishing and boating along the Erne. For avid walkers, there are many trails, road and mountain paths in the surrounding countryside. Belleek is the perfect stopping off place, with a good selection of shops and due to its Border location the village operates dual currency (Stg and Euro)!
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What's on in Belleek
The village of Belleek can offer the visitor a wealth of activities, from walking to potholing. Belleek is a beautiful Lakeland paradise, ideal for fishing, cruising and other water based holidays. Relax and enjoy cruising down the River Erne with Belleek Charter Cruising. Boat trips last one hour, half a day or a day. The cruise through Lakeland scenery is breathtaking.
The largest lake, Lough Erne, is 50 miles long and is now joined to the River Shannon by the Shannon–Erne Waterway, making it the longest navigable leisure inland waterway in Europe! For the fishing enthusiasts, the renowned loughs Melvin and MacNean are just minutes away. And, of course, sea fishing in the Atlantic Ocean is only 4 miles (6kms) to the west.
Local Belleek History
Belleek, although a small village, is steeped in history. The unique blend of heritage attractions includes pre-historic stone carvings, ancient monastic settlements and plantation castles. The aristocrat, John Caldwell Bloomfi eld of Castle Caldwell, established Ireland’s oldest pottery, Belleek Pottery, in 1847; 150 years later, this world famous Pottery is still manufacturing its distinctive china.
Castle Caldwell: these ruins of a plantation castle, built in 1611, provide the perfect starting place to enjoy the nearby forest walks. At the entrance is the ‘Fiddle Stone’, a memorial to a fiddler, Denis McCabe, who fell out of the St. Patrick’s barge and was drowned; the inscription reads:
‘On firm land only exercise your skill; there you may play and safely drink your fill’.
