The main town of Fermanagh is Enniskillen (, ' Ceithleann's island ').

The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

Enniskillen is the site of the foundation of two British Army regiments:

The Irish language novel Mo Dhá Mhicí by Séamus Mac Annaidh is set in Enniskillen.

Enniskillen is classified as a " medium town " by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) ( i. e. with population between 10, 000 and 18, 000 people ).

The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is at Lough Navar Forest, about 8. 5 miles North West of Enniskillen.

It is likely Enniskillen town centre is significantly less frosty than this.

Enniskillen Airport is the host venue for Heli Challenge: The Premier Helicopter Championship

There is also a move to restore service on the Dublin to Navan line, and smaller campaigns to re-establish the rail links between Sligo and Enniskillen / Omagh / Derry and Mullingar and Athlone / Galway.

The town of Enniskillen ( Irish inis Cethlinn, " Cethlenn's island ") in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland is named after her.

The waterborne element of Search and Rescue is provided by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from 43 lifeboat stations including inland stations at Enniskillen and Lough Derg, the coastguard inshore rescue boats, and community rescue boats at eleven stations: Cahore, Tramore, Bunmahon, Bantry, Derrynane, Banna, Ballybunion, Kilkee, Schull, Limerick City, Corrib / Mask.

Earl of Enniskillen is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

The family seat is Colebrooke Park, on the Colebrooke Estate, on the outskirts of Brookeborough, near Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh.

Shallow Upper Lough Erne, spreading southeast of Enniskillen for about 12 miles, is a maze of islands .. River Erne is 100km long and drains an area of about 4, 350km2.

The area is popular for angling and watersports, with waterskiing, Rowing and wakeboarding being amongst the most popular ; the stretch of water alongside the Broadmeadow, Enniskillen, has hosted stages of the World Waterski Championships annually since 2005, and in 2007, a pro-wakeboard competition, ' Wakejam ' was hosted by the Erne Wakeboard Club ( EWC ) after successful national wakeboard competitions in the previous years.

* Just outside the town of Kells on the road to Oldcastle is the hill of Lloyd, named after Thomas Lloyd of Enniskillen, who camped a large Williamite army here during the wars of 1688-91 against the Jacobites.

Enniskillen is the main centre of population with 13, 000 people.

* The day I lost my daughter-Gordon Wilson's wife, Joan, mother of the youngest victim of the 1987 Enniskillen bombing, recalls the day of the IRA attack ( Episode 2: 10 Days of Terror is broadcast on April 2008 on BBC Two ).

The main place to get a ferry to the island is at Trory Point, just outside Enniskillen.

The town is on the main road-the N3 road-linking Dublin ( to the south ) with Enniskillen, Ballyshannon and Donegal Town ( to the north ).

The town, an enclave within Enniskillen Township, is billed as " Canada's Victorian Oil Town " and is often credited with starting the oil industry in North America.

The county covers an area of 1, 691 km² ( 653 sq ; mi ), with a population of approximately 57, 527, with Enniskillen its county town.

Enniskillen and Derry were the two garrisons in Ulster that were not wholly loyal to James II, it was the last town to fall before the siege of Derry.

As a direct result of this conflict Enniskillen developed not only as a market town but also as a garrison, which became home to two regiments.

The Irish singer / songwriter Tommy Makem wrote a lighthearted song about the town, " Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen ," covered by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and The Dubliners.

Data has also more recently been collected from Enniskillen Airport / St Angelo, under 4 miles to the North of the town centre, which should, in time, give a more accurate representation of the climate of the Enniskillen area.

The town of Enniskillen lies on the short stretch of the river between the lakes.

Kells was a renowned traffic bottleneck from both the N3 national primary route ( Dublin, Cavan, Enniskillen and Ballyshannon ) and N52 national secondary route ( Dundalk, Tullamore and Nenagh ) passing though the town centre.

The place separated from Enniskillen Township and was incorporated as a town on December 25 of that same year.

The opening of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway ( E & BR ) in 1868 connected Bundoran railway station with Ireland's growing railway network and made the town more accessible from Belfast, Dublin and other population centres on the east and north-east coasts of Ireland.

The town is served by a number of Bus Éireann routes including the Sligo to Enniskillen route 66, Expressway service.

The East Riding of the county of Lambton was initially defined to consist of the townships of Enniskillen, Brooke, Warwick and Bosanquet, the town of Petrolia, and the villages of Oil Springs, Alvinston, Watford, Arkona and Thedford.

* the part of the county of Lambton contained in the townships of Brooke, Dawn, Enniskillen, Euphemia, Sombra, and Warwick, including the town of Forest, Walpole Island, St. Ann Island and the other islands at the mouth of the St. Clair River ; and

McGovern joined Celtic in July 2001 from home town junior club Enniskillen Town United.

The town of Enniskillen is mostly situated on an island in the river, between Upper and Lower Lough Erne.

The siting on the comparatively small 1200 acre ( 5 km² ) estate in County Fermanagh was primarily due to its unspoilt rural location and natural beauty amongst ancient oak woodland and small lakes, yet with proximity to the market town of Enniskillen for the domestic labour necessary for a large mansion.

– The Fermanagh story: a documented history of the County Fermanagh from the earliest times to the present day – Enniskillen: Cumann Seanchais Chlochair, 1969.

He then moved to the Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher, as rector of the Cathedral Parish of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and Dean of Clogher.

The Friths settled in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, after John Frith's execution.

He had already been created Viscount Enniskillen in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776 and had inherited the title Baron Mount Florence, of Florence Court in the County of Fermanagh, which had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1760 for his father John Cole, who had earlier represented Enniskillen in the Irish House of Commons.

This had followed a chance meeting with Nancy, Countess of Enniskillen who had presented Florence Court in County Fermanagh to the Trust the previous year.

Gordon Wilson ( 25 September 1927 — 27 June 1995 ) was a draper in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh who became known as a peace campaigner during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

He spent most of his adult life running the family drapery in High Street, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.

He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and educated at Trinity College Dublin.

Portora Royal School located in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, is one of a number of ' free schools ' founded by Royal Charter in 1608, by James I.

He deserted the family shortly after making arrangements for his two oldest sons to attend Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh ; and Anna moved to London, where both she and her youngest son died.

He was born in Clara, County Offaly, Ireland and educated first at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, and then at Trinity College, Dublin.

* 12 December-The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland with the bombing of a BBC relay transmitter in County Londonderry, burning of a courthouse in Magherafelt by a unit led by 18-year-old Seamus Costello and of an Ulster Special Constabulary post near Newry and blowing up of a half-built British Army barracks at Enniskillen.

The A509 and A46 roads in Northern Ireland form part of an overall route connecting to Enniskillen, and northwest to the border again where the N3 reappears to serve Ballyshannon in County Donegal.

Eric Norman Frankland Bell VC ( 28 August 1895 – 1 July 1916 ) was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland and was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Bell was born on 28 August 1895 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh to Captain E. H. Bell.

Henry Hartigan VC ( March 1826 – 29 October 1886 ) was born Drumlea, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

The club, founded in 1975, hails from Ballinamallard, near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and plays its home matches at Ferney Park.

Irvine was born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in Ireland.

Stone devised the idea for the Milltown attack after an IRA bomb killed eleven people attending a Remembrance Sunday service at the cenotaph in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in 1987.

He was born at Drogheda, County Louth, the eldest son of Edward Atkinson, a physician, of Glenwilliam Castle, County Limerick and Skea House, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and his wife Rosetta.