Tourist Attractions
| Castle Balfour |
| Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh |
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 Overlooking
the town of Lisnaskea, Castle Balfour was built between 1616
and 1625 by Michael Lord Balfour of Burleigh as part of King
James 1's plantation of Ulster.
Seemingly T-Shaped in plan, but with peripheral extensions,
it is a three-storey structure with Scottish characteristics
and an unusual bay feature (substantially restored) jutting
out from the east wall. Originally this would have looked
on to a bawn enclosed by a high wall, and located within the
present grounds of the Church of Ireland graveyard, but nothing
survives of it.
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| Phone: +44 (0)28 9054 3037 |
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| Crom Castle |
| Newtownbutler, Co Fermamagh |
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On the shores of the Upper Lough Erne in County Fermanagh
lies one of the most important nature conservation sites owned
by the National Trust - Crom Estate.
The 1,900 acre estate includes the largest surviving area
of oak woodland in Northern Ireland and one of the most important
and least spoilt freshwater habitats in the British Isles.
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| Phone: +(44) 013657 38174 |
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| Aghalurcher church |
| Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh |
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St. Ronan is said to have founded a church in the 7th century
at this spot a mile and a half south of Lisnaskea, where many
Maguire chieftains were buried.Of greater interest than the
ruined church with battered walls are the 18th century grave-stones,
some kept locked in a stone vault.
A 12th century carving of a figure bearing book and cross,
which may once have adorned a now-vanished tomb-shrine of
St. Ronan, is now exhibited in the Fermanagh County Museum
in the Castle at Enniskillen.
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| Phone: +44 (0)28 6632 3110 (Tourist Information
Centre) |
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