Castle Archdale

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Castle Archdale

Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 7 Sep 2005

Castle Archdale Country Park is situated about 10 miles north west of Enniskillen. John Archdale from East Anglia came to live here on the shores of Lower Loch Erne in about 1614 after he acquired this estate of 1000 acres as part of the Plantation of Ulster. But the castle he built to defend his property was “put to the torch by Maguire” in the rebellion of 1641 and is now this towered ruin at the southern end of the present Country Park of 230 acres http://www.castlearchdale.com/ 2500 people lived here during the 1939-45 war when the Park was a flying boat base for harrying German submarines in the Western Approaches. They accounted for about ten U-boats and participated in the sinking of the battleship Bismark http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/789466

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