Tullykelter Castle

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Tullykelter, south near Monea Castle , (Hamilton), Castle Hume Hall and Tully Castle (Hume)

Tullykelter Castle ( Irish Caisleán Thulaigh Chealtchair ) is a ruined castle about 1.6 km southwest of Monea Castle in the townland Tullykelter ( Irish Tulaigh Chealtchair ) in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland . In 1616, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel, Malcolm Hamilton , James Somerville and his wife Elizabeth granted land to build a castle. Elizabeth Somerville is said to have been the daughter of Thomas Hamilton from Brimbill . They had a daughter who married the Archbishop's third son, Captain John Hamilton .

architecture

Tullykelter Castle is on top of a hill south of Monea Castle. Today it is a ruin that is heavily overgrown by plants. The rectangular building has two floors and a floor area of ​​18.2 meters × 6.0 meters.

James and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Somerville

James Somerville comes from Cambusnethan in Ayrshire, Scotland . He and his wife leased the land to native Irish people, breaking the land ownership agreement. With that, the land they had leased was lost to them. James and Elizabeth laid the supremacy , but a tenant, Daniel Elliot , to whom they gave the position of a purchaser and accountant, did not put the oath of allegiance , a kind of allegiance to his position as a buyer and accountant from.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulster Journal of Archeology . Issue 1. p. 206
  2. ↑ DM Waterman: tullykelter castle, Co. Fermanagh in Archaelogogical Survey of Northern Ireland .

Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 58.6 "  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 43.2"  W.