Lusty Beg Island is an island

Island

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 located in Lower Lough Erne

Lough Erne

Lough Erne, sometimes Loch Erne , is the name of two connected lakes in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The lakes are widened sections of the River Erne. The river begins by flowing north, and then curves west into the Atlantic. The southern lake is further up the river and so is named Upper...

, in County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh

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, Northern Ireland

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. In the early 20th century, Lady Hunt from Alberta

Alberta

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 in Canada

Canada

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 owned Lustymore Island

Lustymore Island

Lustymore Island is an island located in Lower Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.Nearby Boa Island, in its Caldragh cemetery has a carved Janus type figure. A second figure was brought to Caldragh in 1939 from Lustymore Island....

 and Lusty Beg Island. When her residence, Glenvar House, on Lustymore was accidentally burned down, Lady Hunt moved to Germany

Germany

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.

In the 1950s, Captain Kosh, a British Army

British Army

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 officer purchased Lusty Beg and constructed the first chalet for hire. In the 1960s the island was sold to Bill and Ann O'Hara who further developed it as a tourist destination. The present owners, Arthur and Liz Cadden, bought the island in 1990.

People

In the late 19th century, Richard Allingham, brother of the poet

Poet

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 William Allingham

William Allingham

William Allingham was an Irish man of letters and a poet.-Biography:He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent...

, lived on Lusty Beg Island in a thatched cottage known as Ned's cottage which has now been restored and is used as seminar rooms by the Lusty Beg hotel and activity centre.