Portora Castle
Portora Castle ( Irish Caisleán Phort Abhla ) is a ruined castle in Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland . Sir William Cole, who bought the land in 1612, had the castle built. It is strategically located at the confluence of the Erne and lower Lough Erne . The ruin is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Portora in the District of Fermanagh and Omagh .
history
Sir Michael Cole and his family moved into Portora Castle in 1710 when their previous home, Enniskillen Castle , was damaged by fire. They stayed there until about 1716 when Sir Michael's son, John Cole (1680–1726), began building Florence Court .
The ford near Portora was an important junction in the Erne waterways and must have seen a lot of traffic in times of war and peace. During the implementation of the Erne Drainage Scheme 1951-1960, a bronze dagger knife and stone axes were found there. The castle is now in ruins, partly because a group of truant schoolboys from the nearby Portora Royal School who were experimenting with gunpowder, which they learned to make in chemistry class, blew up part of the castle at the end of the 19th century. They also tried to dig under the building, which hastened its deterioration.
construction
In 1619 Nicholas Pynnar described the castle as "a bawn ( curtain wall ) of lime and stone, 2.5 meters square, about 4 meters high, with four flanking towers and a stone house or castle three stories high, strongly built". Three of the flanking towers have been preserved to this day, two of them on the west side, where they are to the left and right of the castle walls. These round towers, about 3 meters in diameter, have several loopholes. In the castle you can see open chimneys on the north and west walls.
Individual evidence
- ^ Portora Castle . In: Environment and Heritage Service NI - State Care Historic Monuments . Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 7 ° 39 ′ 18 ″ W.