Fermanagh Heritage Trails

A short loop around Main Street and Craghan lane, taking in the village's four listed buildings — its parish church, a Main Street house and former tavern, and the Gothic Methodist church with its roots in John Wesley's visits.

A short loop around a border village built on a crossing point — from a 17th-century redoubt and a restored two-country railway station to a prehistoric cairn and a Scheduled lake-dwelling on Lough MacNean.

Walk the compact Main Street of Ireland's westernmost village, from the world-famous Belleek Pottery to the Erne bridge that has marked the Fermanagh/Donegal border since partition, taking in the village's churches, its surviving thatch and a 17th-century Plantation settlement underfoot.

Lough Erne's largest island carries three very different memories: a pair of Iron Age stone idols standing watch over a Christian graveyard, an early ringfort built the wrong way round, and a wartime flying boat that never made it home. 3 stops along the A47 causeway.

A short loop through a Brooke-family estate village — Main Street's listed terraces, the old Clogher Valley narrow-gauge station, and the churches and memorial hall that still anchor a village split almost evenly between traditions.

A Plantation estate burned twice, rebuilt as a Georgian mansion, then reborn as a WWII flying-boat base that helped sink the Bismarck — with a short ferry ride out to White Island's mysterious carved stone congregation, silent since the 10th century. 3 stops.

A short walk around a Plantation-founded Sillees River village — from a 1627 Dunbar church ruin and its bawn, along a 19th-century market Main Street, to a Victorian Orange Hall and a 1941 parish church.

This trail links the modern village of Derrylin — Doire Loinn, the oak grove — on Upper Lough Erne's shore to its deeper past: the ruined medieval church at Aghalurcher where a Maguire chief is said to have died at the altar in 1484, the saint-legends and Plantation ruins of Knockninny hill above the lough, and the parish's two 19th-century churches and 17th-century graveyard at Callowhill. The core loop stays within the village; Aghalurcher and Knockninny are worthwhile detours reached by road.

A short walk along Ederney's Main Street, from the site of its 1610 Plantation founding to the market house, post office and shopfront that carried the village through the 19th and 20th centuries.

Cross the River Erne into Northern Ireland's only island county town, from the Maguire castle and its Cole-era Watergate to the Diamond's Victorian town hall, a restored butter market, and the school that shaped Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.

Wander the demesne of a Georgian Earl's mansion, from the walled garden's ice house and eel-trap bridge to a quiet earthen ringfort centuries older than the house itself.

A short loop around a Lough Melvin border village — from an 1828 chapel of ease down Main Street to the bridge over the Roogagh River, whose water feeds a lough famous for trout found nowhere else on earth.

Walk the wide Plantation Main Street of a village twice renamed — from Lowtherstown to Irvinestown — past a lone church tower, a Georgian bar, and out to the castle that gave the town its name.

A short loop around the Main Street of a Lough Erne shore village — from the wicker crossing that gave Kesh its name, past a former RIC barracks turned hotel, to the listed farmhouses lining the roads toward Crevenish and Pettigo.

A short walk through the heart of a tiny border parish that has hosted an unbroken line of Christian worship for roughly 1,400 years -- from St Naile's holy well and the ruins of his medieval church to the parish church built on land gifted by the Maguires.

A short climb up Lisbellaw's steep Main Street, past the officially listed church, chapel, meeting house, pub and shopfront the village grew up around.

From a ruined Plantation castle to the market buildings the Earl of Erne raised around it, this short loop covers Fermanagh's second town in one easy walk.

A short walk around the Colebrooke River village that gave its name to the Maguire family's 18th-century bridge — from Main Street's old market hall to the two churches and the vanished railway junction that once made this a crossroads of Ulster.

A Plantation castle built in 1616 stands on the exact spot where a Maguire castle stood before it — crannog still visible — making Monea one of Fermanagh's clearest single-site windows onto the changeover from Gaelic to Planter Ulster. 2 stops.

A short loop around the Diamond and High Street of a south Fermanagh border village named for the Butler family, Earls of Lanesborough — taking in its market house, former hotel, two 1820s churches, court house and railway station.

A short loop through Fermanagh's easternmost village, from a Gothic-towered chapel and a Victorian schoolhouse-turned-museum to a quiet Main Street house and the old bridge over the River Finn, right on the border.

From the gothic gables of Tempo Manor to the listed churches and shopfronts of Main Street, a short walk through a small Fermanagh village built around a 19th-century estate.

A Scottish planter's castle on Blaney Bay, surrendered on a promise of safe conduct and then the scene of one of the Ulster Rebellion's darkest Christmas Days — castle and village both frozen at the moment the Humes never returned. 2 stops.