E N N I SKI LLEN LON G A GO. A N H I S T O R I C S K E T C H @b2 fi a ris b of I NISH KEENE I N LACU ERNENSI , , N OW CA LLE D E N N I S K I LLE N E E E E I N T H D IOC S O F C L O G H R . B R A D H W . S A W H , A M D U B L I N 1 1 . GEORGE HERBERT, 7 GRAFTON STREET W R L E E S E S T . E LL E N : . N NISKI T IMB , A T BRIDG 1 8 8 7 . D U B L EN G V B B S P R T N T E D B Y P ORT E OUS A N D r 1 8 WT C K LO W STR E E T . C S S A H . £ 6 38 7 8 I N R E M E MB R A NCE M U CH R E S A N D GO O ' LL F I ND HIP D WI , E bis litflz 190a I S AF FE CTI O NATE L Y DE DICAT E D E N N I S K I L L E N E R S , BY O N E W H O L IVE D A M O NG TH E M E A N D T E Y E R S FIV W NTY A , A S A M S E R O F E R R S R INI T TH I PA I H CHU CH. W . H B . K ILSKEERY R ECTORY D e c 1 8 7 7 . P R E F A C E HE substance of what is contained in the following pages appeared a few years ago in the lo cal r ‘ l P ess , as a series of letters under the t itle of P a r oc/zz b ut as many approving readers and kind friends expressed a desire that the mat t er should be given in a s more permanent form , the writer yields to their wi hes , although c ons cious that there is little t o demand atten c tion , beyond what may afford lo al interest . c i i An Appendix is added, ons st ng of Notes , giving c enlarged details respecting persons, pla es, and events , c whi h are referred to in the book , and may render the c volume a ceptable to distant readers . His warm thanks and grateful acknowledgments are due to the Earl of Belmore , the Very Rev. Dr . Reeves , W . F . Wakeman, Esq, , and other kind f n c riends , for much useful assistance , by affordi g a cess n to old documents , and in other ways , which has co tri buted to render the c ompilation of greater historical a c and arch eologi al value . R E vi P FAC E . The chief portion of the N o te respe cting the Dio cese c o u of Clogher , has been mpiled from the very val able ’ ” a n d A c c elaborate work , r hdea on Cotton s Fasti . c o The stamp on the over was permitted , by the c ur tesy of J . Jordan , Esq . , Chairman of the Town Com missioners to be taken from an impressio n of the c an ient Seal of the Corporation ; this, and the massive c c silver ma e, are interesting reli s of the seventeenth century . CO N T E N T S ( H A P . P AGE , E S K LLE O \Y I . NNI I N T N , T H E M E O F T H E P R S II . NA A I H, A S E L E M S R F O R T H E R III . TT D INI T Y PA I S H O F I N I S H K E E N E I T S E X E A N D O O R L A N D S O L I T NT C NDITI N , NATU A CIA , 7 I V . M S E R S A N D C H U R CH \V A R D E N S INI T , V . T H E O L D R S H R H PA I CHU C , V I T H E M O E R P R S H R H . D N A I CHU C , V I I G T S A N D O E R GS O F T H E P O S E . IF FF IN I U D AD, M O M E S A N D M R L L E S T H E v u r . NU NT U A TAB T WITHIN R CHU CH , I X T H E M E M O R L O A N D T H E M O M E . IA WIND W NU NTS IN T H E E L CHANC , X T O M S O E S T H E R Y R . B T N IN CHU CH A D , X I . T H E R S R E S E R S PA I H GI T , N OTE S ENNISKI LLE N LONG AGO. CHAPTER I . E LLE O NNISKI N T WN . PON a s t r a it an island , in some miles in length, i connecting the Upper with Lower Lough Erne , w and where the waters , flowing do n from the former, w m separate into two narro strea s , the town of Ennis killen took its rise , in the reign of King James the First . Before that period there stood at the south - west part - c u (with a broad dit h or canal abo t it) , a castle, which for the two previous centuries , had been the scene of many sanguinary frays between the hostile septs of ’ O D o n n ell c of Donegal, and Maguire , under the hief tain of Fermanagh . Ca it hlen The name as spelled in Irish , is Inis or “ a ithlin n i . e. C , , the Isle of Kehlen In the Annals of Clonmacnoise it is stated , that this island took its name Cet hl en from (Kehlen) wife of Balor, of the great blows, chief of the Fomorians, a race of pirates who infested the coasts of Ireland , and oppressed the inhabitants far into the interior. By the Irish authorities it is always ’ - Cethlen n Cethlen s . called Inis , ( Isle ) E LLE LO A GO 2 NNISKI N NG . The following extracts are selected from ‘ A nnals of ’ “ 1 the Four Masters A . D . 43 9 . The Castle of Ennis ” D o n n a ll killen was given up to Ballagh Maguire . 1 2 44 , Maguire (Thomas Oge) gave up the Castle of Ceithlin n S eit hlin n Inis (or Innis g ) to Philip Maguire, 1 0 after letting out Edmond . 5 3 , Maguire, John, D ew son of Philip , son of Thomas More , Gilla , the c c hoi e of the Chieftains of Ireland in his time , the most o f merciful and humane of the Irish, the best pr tector o u his co ntry and lands, the most warlike opponent of ini c c n mi al tribes and neighbours , the best in j urisdi tio a n d t authority, regulation, both in Church and S ate, died in his fortress at Enniskillen , on Sunday, 7 Kal . April , wa s u & c . , and b ried in the Monastery of the Friars at c c D onegal, whi h he had sele ted (as his place of inter ” “ ’ m 1 1 O D o n n ell u ent) 5 4 , (H gh) went with a fleet u of long ships and boats pon Lough Erne, and took up his ab o de for a long time in Enniskillen . He plundered a n d burned the islands of Upper Lo ugh Erne (Cuil na ’ o a n d c nomear) , angle of the harb ur, made a pea e with the people of Fermanagh after imposing his authority ’ u 1 1 O D o n n ell pon them . 5 4 , (Manus) plundered the w c r hole ount y (Fermanagh) , both lake and land , until h e c n rea hed Enniskillen, and broke and threw dow the u f ex e Castle of Enniskillen , and ret rned safely rom that p ” . 1 u u dition in triumph 5 9 4, After Mag ire (H gh) routed the men of Meath , Reillys of Cavan, and Binghams of u Conna ght, all under George Oge Bingham (Queen ’ z Eli abeth s Lord President of Connaught) , who was con y c eying provisions to Enniskillen , by ommand of the u S ir Willia m z Lord J stice, Fit william , at the battle of ' ‘ the Ford of the Bis cuits ( Atha - na the W h arders of the Castle, aving heard of the defeat of the ' ' ' ' T b e mea r ur e o tb Co r t ell o E n er b zllzn a r or oet/z —F f e f f . zr r t e t/ze Ca r t ell ' ' / zn b ez b t 6 o ot t . T b e I V er te a n d E a r le r ide i n b r edt/z 6 oot t b g 5 f 5 f .