Castle hotel
Newtownbutler
Crom Castle
A still-lived-in aristocratic castle available for fully staffed exclusive-use stays (whole castle or West Wing), set in nearly 2,000 acres of parkland.
Worth the detour
Notable castles to visit
18thc.
Notable castle
Castle Coole
Note: despite the name, Castle Coole is a late-18th-century Neoclassical mansion, not a fortified castle — one of the finest such houses in Ireland or Britain, seat of the Earls of Belmore near Enniskillen.
1611
Notable castle
Crom Castle
The seat of the Earls Erne on the shores of Upper Lough Erne, originally established in 1611 during the Plantation of Ulster by Michael Balfour.
1420s
Notable castle
Enniskillen Castle
Founded in the 1420s by Hugh 'the Hospitable' Maguire, ruler of the Gaelic Maguire clan, guarding one of the few passes into Ulster via the River Erne.
1618
Notable castle
Monea Castle
Built for Malcolm Hamilton and completed in 1618, Monea has a distinctly Scottish appearance with corner turrets at one end of a rectangular four-storey building and two massive round towers with angular tops flanking the entrance at the other, making it one of the best-preserved plantation castles in Fermanagh..
1612
Notable castle
Tully Castle
Built between 1612 and 1615 for Scottish planter Sir John Hume on the southern shore of Lower Lough Erne near Blaney, Tully Castle is a well-preserved example of an early Plantation-of-Ulster fortified house, with an adjoining bawn and a recreated 17th-century garden..