Tully Castle

This stronghouse first documented in 1619 has a typically Scottish T-shaped plan with a square wing projecting from the centre of the south side containing the entrance and a former scale-and-platt timber stair. The hall and parlour lay on the first floor, while the attics above contained the bedrooms, approached by a spiral stair in a Scottish-style quarter-round turret projection. The ground floor consists of a large barrel-vaulted chamber used as the kitchen and store- it has a huge fireplace and cooking recesses, but there are no windows, so light must have been provided by the fire and hanging lanterns.

Overlooking Lough Erne, the impressive remains of a fortified house, surviving almost to its full height of 2½ - storeys, and a bawn (defended enclosure) with four rectangular flankers (projecting corner towers, providing flanking fire along walls as well as forward). Originally built for the Hume family, who lived there until 1641, when it was captured and burned by the Maguire's and never re-occupied.