TheRamblingWombat Enniskillen (Co.Fermanagh)

Erneside Shopping Centre: “Fetch me a Brandy”

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First up, I will say that I harbour a great loathing for shopping centres. I find them sterile, soulless, tedious and depressing places only to be put up with for the minimum time necessary to get what one needs there-in and get out. Given the number of people that linger in these places as if they were houses of pleasure I am clearly in a minority in holding the view that I do.

That said, if you need some shopping therapy the Erneside  Shopping Centre exists. Continue reading “Erneside Shopping Centre: “Fetch me a Brandy”” →

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Enniskillen War Memorial

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Enniskillen’s War Memorial at the intersection of Belmore Steet, the Queen Elizabeth Road and East Bridge Street was constructed in the aftermath of World War I to commemorate those who lost their lives in that war.

The Memorial stands about 6.5 metres high and is surmounted by a bronze figure of a lone private soldier in war kit, head bowed and leaning on his reversed rifle. I was particularly taken by the 1932 picture of the War Memorial (picture 2 above) taken by Fr.Francis Browne MC, former Chaplin to the Irish Guards. Continue reading “Enniskillen War Memorial” →

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The Sisters of Mercy & Their Convent Chapel

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The Sisters of Mercy, a Roman Catholic order founded by Catherine McAuley in Baggot Street, Dublin, in 1831, arrived in Enniskillen on 27 May, 1856 with the purpose of establishing a school for girls. This they quickly did. The ground floor of their living quarters served as a classroom until a separate school building was erected in 1887. Continue reading “The Sisters of Mercy & Their Convent Chapel” →

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St Michael’s Roman Catholic Church

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Built in 1875, shortly after the current incarnation of its Protestant neighbour across the street (St Macartin’s Cathedral ), St Michael’s was designed by John O’Neill a very distinguished 19th century Ulster Catholic architect. His design had included a belfry and spire but these could not be built at the time because of soft foundations. A unique but necessary feature of St Michael’s are the flying-buttresses which were added in 1921 to reinforce the west wall. The current spire was added in later years. Continue reading “St Michael’s Roman Catholic Church” →