Ireland · Ruin
Tully Castle
Tully Castle is an early 17th-century plantation castle on the southern shore of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Built for Sir John Hume, it was attacked and burned in 1641 and today survives as a roofless stone ruin maintained as a State Care Historic Monument.
Its prime
1620
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1620
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact rectangular stone tower-house with a tall central gabled façade and large rectangular window openings, flanked by lower curtain walls and a taller projecting rectangular stair/chimney tower to the right. Constructed of rough grey rubble masonry with narrow slit windows and a crenellated wall section to the left. In its prime the building had a pitched roof and visible chimneys; it stands on a gently sloping plot beside Lower Lough Erne, approached by a cobbled path and trimmed hedges.
Its story
The story of Tully Castle.
Tully Castle — in Irish Caisleán na Tulaí, "castle on the hill" — was built for Sir John Hume, a Scottish planter, on Blaney Bay on the southern shore of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. The surrounding Blaney area takes its name from Sir Edward Blaney, one of the English advance party sent to organise the Plantation in Fermanagh.
During the Irish Rebellion of 1641 the rebel soldier Rory Maguire set out to recapture his family's lands, arriving at Tully with a large following on Christmas Eve to find the castle full of women and children, most of the men being away. Lady Mary Hume surrendered, believing she had secured safe conduct for all in her care — but on Christmas Day the Maguires killed 60 women and children and 15 men, sparing only the Humes.
The castle was burnt and the Humes never returned. It survives today as a roofless stone ruin, and with its village site is maintained as a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Tully.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1620.
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Clans who held Tully Castle.
The families that held Tully Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Hume
Built for Sir John Hume, a Scottish planter; the Humes never returned after the castle was burnt in the rebellion of 1641.
