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 a town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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 current site of Fermanagh College ( now part of the South West College ) was the former Enniskillen Gaol, many people were tried and hanged here in the square during the times of public execution.

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 6th Lord Enniskillen had only two children, both by his first wife, Sonia Mary Syers, whom he married on July 31, 1940.

It was only after completion of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway in 1868, which opened a terminus that it called Bundoran, that the two distinct communities developed and merged to what are today called Bundoran.

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.

By November 1688, Enniskillen and Derry were the two garrisons in Ulster that were not wholly loyal to James.

The Cathedral Church of Saint Macartan in the village is now one of two cathedrals of the Church of Ireland diocese of Clogher ; the other is at Enniskillen.

The Church of Ireland bishop is unique in having two diocesan cathedrals within a single diocese, with one Dean and chapter between them: the Cathedral Church of Saint Macartin, Enniskillen and the Cathedral Church of Saint Macartan, Clogher.

As with the rest of the British Isles, Enniskillen experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

* 1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces.

* 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.

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.

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.

Born near Bowmanville in the hamlet of Enniskillen, Ontario, the son of Robert McLaughlin, he started working in 1887 for his father's company, McLaughlin Carriage Works, at one time the largest manufacturer of horse-drawn buggies and sleighs in the British Empire.

He purchased a plot of land at a crossroads in the townland of Brockagh Lower along the N16 Enniskillen to Sligo road, where he built the hall, locally known as the " Nissen Hut "; it got the name due to the fact that the galvanised iron construction looked like the old British army huts.

Once a thriving market village on the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway, the village suffered from partition in 1922, the closure of the railway in 1957 and from the closure of numerous cross-border roads by the British army at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

* November 8 – Enniskillen bombing: Eleven people are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.

In 1987 a bomb was detonated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army just before a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, killing eleven people.

On Remembrance Sunday 1987, a bomb was detonated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) during a ceremony in Enniskillen.

A BBC relay transmitter was bombed in Derry, a courthouse was burned in Magherafelt by a unit led by an 18-year-old Seamus Costello, as was a B-Specials post near Newry and a half-built Army barracks at Enniskillen was blown up.