| Castle Name | Condition | Description | Early Founder(s) -- Time Period(s) Contructed | Parish/Townland | Ord | Residency | Links |
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| Aghagay Castle | None | Castle? | ???? -- Built by -- Butler | Galloon, Aghagay | H416261 | NISMR database | |
| Aghalane Castle | Ruins | Castle? - "a bawne of Clay & Stone, rough cast over with lime, 50ft square & 12ft high with two flankers. It hath a poor thatched house within". The remains of the castle, which was destroyed by a fire shortly before the Famine, are now heavily overgrown. They consist of a square curtain wall, on the E side of which are 2 drum towers & on the W side, foundations of 2 square towers. The house ran the full width of the bawn, c.16m x 7m & 6m high. | 1614-19
-- Built by -- James Creighton ???? -- Destroyed by fire |
Kinawley, Aghalane, Killcloghan | H341200 | http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castleaghalane.htm NISMR database |
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| Aghalun Castle | None | Castle? | Aghavea, Aghalun | H387410 | NISMR database | ||
| Agheeter Castle (Aghalurcher Castle, old castle on the townland of Aheter) | None | Tower-House | Aghalurcher, Aghavoory | H44994632 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/aghalurcher.htm https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nirfer2/Church/Genevieve/Aghalurcher/Aghalurcher_Ruins.htm NISMR database |
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| Aughalurcher Castle | None | Castle? | ??? -- Residence fo -- Maguire's | Aghalurcher, Inishcreenry | H305334 | NISMR database | |
| Brookborough Castle (Brookboro Castle) | Ruin | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/aghalurcher.htm http://www.maguirefoods.com/extendedhistory.html |
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| Callow Hill Castle | Ruins | Plantation Castle - "a Bawne begun of Stone, being 60 feet square with two flankers, but...not yet above 5 feet from the ground." | c1619
-- Built by -- George Adwick 1641 -- Destroyed by -- Irish rebels |
Kinawley, Callowhill | H27752646 | NISMR database | |
| Castle Archdale (old Castle Archdale, Castle Archdall) | Ruin | Castle and Bawn - "a Bawne of Lime & Stone, with 3 Flankers 15ft high, in each corner there is a good Lodging slated, with a House in the Bawne 80ft long & 3 stories high & a Battlement about it". | 1615
-- Built by -- 1641 -- Captured and Destroyed by -- Irish Rebels 1665 -- Rebuilt by -- 1883 -- Castle Collapses |
Derryvullan, Bonaninver | H18665989 | State Care | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/derryvullen.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/enniskillen.htm http://www.combs-families.org/archdale/memoirs/oldcastlea.gif NISMR database |
| Castle Balfour (on Site of former Maguire Stronghold "Castle Skea" ) | Ruin | Plantation Castle - "a large strong tymber house two stories high" & a castle "built acorss the end of the church with Flankers both sides of the church...". The present ruins are an L-shaped block with an off-shoot at the SE corner. This is probably the house & the E projection, now almost entirely destoyed is the castle. | 1618
-- built by -- Chrichton 1803 -- Destroyed by fire |
Aughalucher, Castle Balfour | H36223369 | State Care | http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/fermanagh/castle_balfour.html http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castlebalfour.htm NISMR database |
| Castle Brindsley | None | Castle? - "bawne of Lime & Stone, 70ft square, 12 ft high , with 2 Flankers, which are 3 stories high; there is also a good Stone House in building, which is but as yet above the 1st storie". the bawn was still unfinished "nor any Gate to it", the house was "the length of the Bawne & 22ft broad" & still only 1 storey high & outside the bawn "adjoining to one side of the wall, there is beginning to be builded a house of stone & lyme, 80ft long". | Galloon, Sheeny | H411262 | NISMR database | ||
| Castle Caldwell | Ruin | Castle - It was described in 1620 as "a strong bawn of lime & stone with 2 flankers & within it a strong house...67ft long & 25ft broad" Much of the original plantation building still survives. A major remodelling & enlargement of the house took place in the late 1780's, adding an extra wing & giving the front a Gothic facade, one of the most impressive still surviving in Ireland. The building is now in ruins after being abandoned in the C19th & is owned by Forest Service. | 1600's
-- Built by -- Sir Edward Blennerhasset 1660 -- Sold to -- James Caldwell 1780's -- Remodeled with Gothic Façade -- Bloomfield? |
Belleek, Rossbeg | H01736048 | Forest Service | http://fermanagh.goireland.com/scripts/low/xq/asp/areaid.177/areatype.C/cat.6/SubjectID.184/PremisesID.14911/qx/premises.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/belleek.htm http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/6455/castlecaldwell.html NISMR database |
| Castle Coole | Full | Earls of Belmore (1796-98) | National Trust | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/enniskillen.htm http://www.lodgings-ireland.com/castle-coole/ |
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| Castle Hume | None | Golf Club | http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/castlehu.htm | ||||
| Castle Irvine (Castle Irvinestown) | Full | http://www.irvineclan.com/necarne.htm http://www.irvineclan.com/castle.htm |
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| Castle Murray | None | House and Bawn - "a stong Bawne of Lime & Stone, 150ft long, 120ft wide & 12ft high with three Flankers; within the Bawne there is a strong House of Lime & Stone, three Stories high". | 1613
-- Built by -- Lord Folliott 1820's -- Destroyed by -- |
Magheracross, Drummurry | H2552 | NISMR database | |
| Castle Skea | None | http://www.maguirefoods.com/extendedhistory.html | |||||
| Clones Castle (‘Cluan Innis,’ "the Island of Retreat", ‘Cloanish’,‘Clownish") | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/clones.htm | ||||||
| Corratrasna | Balfour (c1610) | ||||||
| Crevenish Castle | Ruin | Plantation Castle - it was described as a bawn of lime & stone 75ft long, 47ft broad & 2 & a half stories high. The ruins of the dwelling house still stand; it has a square turret with loop-holed windows at the NE corner. | <1619 Built by -- Thomas Blennerhasset | Magheraculmoney, Crevinish | H16556260 | http://www.from-ireland.net/descrs/ferm/fermanulster.htm http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castlecrevenish.htm NISMR database |
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| Crom Castle (Old Crom, Crum Castle) | Ruin | Castle - "a Bawne of Lime & Stone being 60ft square,12ft high with 2 flankers. Within the Bawne there is a house of Lime & Stone.". The ruins are now heavily overgrown, but would appear to be 2 oblong castles, 2 stories high & the whole complex surrounded by a bawn with round towers. | c1614
-- Built by -- 1641 -- besieged and destroyed by -- Irish ???? -- Rebuilt by -- 1689 -- Under seige twice 1764 -- Destroyed by fire |
Gallon, Crom | H36452380 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/galloon.htm http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castlecrom.htm http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/travel/attractions/castles/old_crom.shtm NISMR database |
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| Deerpark Castle (Now Colebrooke Park) | Ruin | Castle? | Aghavea, Deer Park | H386387 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/aghalurcher.htm http://www.colebrooke.info/ NISMR database |
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| Derrychulla Castle | None | Castle? | ???? -- Owned by -- Burleigh Family | Aghalurcher, Derrychulla | H352327 | NISMR database | |
| Derryheely Castle (Deerpark Castle 2) (Now Colebrooke Park) | Ruin | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/aghalurcher.htm http://www.maguirefoods.com/extendedhistory.html http://www.colebrooke.info/ |
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| Enniskillen Castle | Full* | Castle - The castle consists of 2 sections - a central keep & a surrounding curtain wall. It provided the main defence for the W end of the town & guarded the Sligo road. The keep, the original Maguire Castle, has been substantially rebuilt & now consists of 3 storeys on a strong slanting batter. The curtain wall consists of a wall c. 6m high at E & 2 ranges of Georgian barracks at N & W. The S is composed of the Water Gate, the function of which is uncertain, but it may have been a drawbridge, or a flanking tower. | 1595
-- Castle assaulted by -- Maquire (c1415), Cole -- 15th & 17th century? |
Enniskillen, Enniskillen | H23154422 | Museum | http://www.enniskillencastle.co.uk/ http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/fermanagh/enniskillen.html http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/enniskillen.htm NISMR database |
| Innishleage Castle | None | Castle | Aghalurcher, Innishleage Island | H299327 | NISMR database | ||
| Knockninny Castle (Belle Isle Castle) | Full | http://www.celticcastles.com/castles/belleislecastle/ | |||||
| Lord Highgate's Castle | None | Castle | ???? -- Residence of -- Lord Highgate (durring reign of Queen Elizabeth.) | Gallon, Agharoosky East | H44922825 | NISMR database | |
| Magherameenagh Castle | Plantation Castle? | 1700's -- Built by -- James Johnston | Belleek, Magherameenagh | G97795921 | NISMR database | ||
| Monea Castle | Ruin | Castle and Bawn - "a strong Castle of Lime & Stone, being 54ft long & 20ft broad; but hath no Bawne unto it". The bawn was built later, in 1622. The castle is oblong in plan, 3 storeys high. >From the angle of the W end rise 2 semi-cylindrical towers with box-like turrets. Both have spiral staircases. | 1618
-- Castle Built for -- Malcolm Hamilton 1641 -- Castle taken by -- Irish ???? -- Castle retaken by -- the planters 1688 -- residence of -- Governor of Enniskillen |
Devonish, Castletown Monea | H16474937 | State Care | http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/travel/attractions/castles/monea.shtm http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/fermanagh/monea.html http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/f/devenish.htm http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castlemonea.htm NISMR database |
| Naan Island Castle in Lough Erne | None | Castle | ???? -- Owned by -- Lord Burleigh and Family | Aughalurcher, Naan Island West | H29463183 | Forest Service | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/aghalurcher.htm NISMR database |
| Necarne Castle (Nakarney Castle, Nakarna Castle) | None | Castle - "a strong Bawne of Lime & Stone, & a House in it". "two smale flanckers cast out on top of the wall." Castle Irvine was built on this site, the old castle is recorded with round towers. | 16th century strong-house? | Derryvullan, Castle Irvine | H236573 | http://www.irvineclan.com/necarne.htm http://www.irvineclan.com/castle.htm NISMR database |
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| Portora Castle (Portora Bawn) | Ruin | House and Bawn - consists of a three storey house across the breadth of the bawn, which is defended by 4 circular corner towers. | 1614
-- Built by -- Sir William Cole ???? -- Castle let to -- Bishop Spottiswood 1629 -- Residence of -- The Coles 1859 -- Destroyed by -- Schoolboys with explosives |
Rossaorry, Portora | H22214530 | State Care | http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castleportora.htm NISMR database |
| Tully Castle | Ruin | Castle and Bawn - described as "a bawne of lime & stone, 100ft square & 15ft high, having 4 flankers...There is also a fair strong castle...He has made a village...in which is dwelling 24 families". The strong house is 2 stories high, with attics. The gate to the bawn was on the site opposite the house. At the corners of the bawn were the rectangular flankers. | 1610-19
-- Built by -- Sir John Hume 1641 -- Attacked and burned by -- Rory Maguire |
Inishmacsaint, Tully | H12675664 | State Care | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/don/inishmacsaint.htm http://www.macatilla.net/Tully_castle.htm http://www.travel-wise.com/europe/ireland/tully.html http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/fermanagh/tully.html http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castletully.htm NISMR database |
| TullyKelter Castle | Ruin& | Fortified House - The plan is a fairly typical T-plan house, 2 storeys high, with large windows on the ground floor & with gun loops for defence. A considerable portion of the ruins still stand. | 1616 -- Built by -- James Somerville | Devenish, Tullykelter | H15524827 | http://www.castlesbytheerne.co.uk/files/castletullykelter.htm NISMR database |
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