History
Interestingly, Fermanagh escaped the potato blight disease during the Great Famine better than any other county, as the county had so many islands. The potato blight had difficulty travelling over water, compared to the easier transmission across the green hills and fields of most of Ireland. Those Erne islands produced surprising amounts of potatoes (the staple diet on the island, from 1845–1849), whilst the mainland was largely starving in comparison.
The Annals of Ulster were written in the late 15th century on Belle Isle, an island in Upper Lough Erne.
Read more about this topic: Lough Erne
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