Towns in County Fermanagh.

(Cethleann island.)

The town of Enniskillen is situated mainly on an island at the junction of Upper and Lower Lough Erne The origins of the town go back to prehistory when this was the main highway between Ulster and Connaught. Enniskillen Castle was the medieval seat of the Maguires, chieftains of Fermanagh, who are said to have maintained a private navy of 1,500 boats on the Lough.

In 1594 the he town was attacked and captured by the English led by John Dowdall and George Bingham.

The castle now houses the Regimental museum of the Inniskilling regiments who fought at Waterloo it also contains exhibits and an audio visual display's on the region's natural history, archaeology and folklore. Both Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett were pupils at the royal school here.