Qualla: Enniskillen https://qualla.com/enniskillen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Enniskillen https://qualla.com/enniskillen Enniskillen: Introduction https://qualla.com/enniskillen/ Enniskillen is a town built on an island, and there are very few of those in the world's atlas of provincial seats. The River Erne pushes between the Upper and Lower Loughs through one narrow neck of land, and that neck is the town. Whoever held it controlled the only practical north-south crossing in central Ulster, and for most of recorded history someone has been fighting to hold it. The Maguires built the castle. The English took it three times. William Cole arrived from Devon to plant it. Two regiments were raised on its streets. James Gamble grew up here before co-founding Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati. Oscar Wilde took Latin lessons across the river. And on one terrible morning in 1987, a bomb made Enniskillen synonymous with the worst day of the Troubles. It still wears all of it.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/t/enniskillen-wp/gcdt-enniskillen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Enniskillen: Hugh the Hospitable and the Watergate https://qualla.com/enniskillen/ The oldest building in town is Enniskillen Castle, raised by Hugh Maguire the Hospitable, who died in 1428. An earthwork called the Skonce on the lakeshore may be the remains of an even earlier motte. The castle's wonderful watergate, a twin-turreted little riverside fortificatio...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/t/enniskillen-wp/gcdt-enniskillen-hugh-the-hospitable-and-the-watergate.mp3 0:06 2 full Enniskillen: The Plantation Town https://qualla.com/enniskillen/ William Cole, a Devonshire soldier appointed by James I in 1612, built the modern town. Installed as Constable, Cole strengthened the castle wall and raised a 'fair house' on its foundation as the centre point of the new county town. The first Protestant parish church went up on ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/t/enniskillen-wp/gcdt-enniskillen-the-plantation-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Enniskillen: Belmore Street, 1987 https://qualla.com/enniskillen/ On the morning of 8 November 1987, a Provisional IRA bomb hidden in the Reading Rooms behind the cenotaph on Belmore Street exploded as a Remembrance Sunday parade approached. Eleven people died at the scene. A twelfth man, Ronnie Hill, fell into a coma he never came out of, dyin...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/t/enniskillen-wp/gcdt-enniskillen-belmore-street-1987.mp3 0:06 4 full Enniskillen: Names From This Island https://qualla.com/enniskillen/ Walk Enniskillen and the place keeps producing names. Oscar Wilde sat in classrooms at Portora Royal School from 1864 to 1871, his name still cut into a window frame there. Samuel Beckett followed at the same school in 1920. Henry Francis Lyte, the curate who wrote the hymn Abide...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/t/enniskillen-wp/gcdt-enniskillen-names-from-this-island.mp3 0:06 5 full Enniskillen: Lakes, Castles, and a G8 Summit https://qualla.com/enniskillen/ Enniskillen now lives mostly off its surroundings. Castle Coole, the Wyatt-designed Palladian palace of 1797, is a mile outside town. Florence Court, the eighteenth-century National Trust mansion famous for the original Florence Court yew, lies eight miles southwest. Monea Castle...

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