Tully Castle
Tully Castle near Blaney on the shores of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, is a well-preserved early seventeenth-century plantation castle built by Sir John Hume around 1610 as part of the systematic colonisation of Fermanagh by Scottish and English settlers. The castle is a T-plan fortified house with a bawn enclosure, representing the standard plantation castle design of the period and providing a remarkably complete example of the type. The castle was attacked and burned during the 1641 rising, with the garrison and their families massacred, and was never subsequently reoccupied, preserving the plantation-era layout largely intact. The castle is in the care of the Historic Environment Division and is freely accessible within a beautiful setting on the shore of Lower Lough Erne, with views across the lough toward the hills of County Donegal.