Lough Erne’s most strategic location

Enniskillen Castle is located on an island that commands one of the few passes into Ulster. The first recorded castle here was built in the late 1400s by Hugh ‘The Hospitable’ Maguire who was chief of the Maguire Clan. The castle changed hands between the Maguires, The O’Donnells, The O’Neills, and eventually The English. This is now a State Care Historic Monument and houses the Fermanagh County Museum. The name Enniskillen (Inis-Ceithleann) means the Island of Kathleen, a mythical queen of ancient lore who was reputedly drowned here.