Property News · October 25, 2013

Let's move to Enniskillen, County Fermanagh


‘Too often synonymous in popular consciousness with the Troubles, this place deserves better. It’s a gem’What’s going for it? Can you think of any other UK towns built on islands? Bristol’s got half a one around the Floating Harbour; London has a few tiddlers in the Thames. Enniskillen, though, is the real deal. Life is pretty squelchy here in the Fermanagh Lakelands, land peeking gingerly above the loughs. The Erne gurgles around the city centre on all sides, enclosing a delightful streetscape. Enniskillen is too often synonymous in popular consciousness with the Troubles, rather than lovely-historic-market-town-jam-packed-with-Georgian-town-houses-and-on-an-island-too! Maybe recent years of relative peace will start to change that. This place deserves better. It’s a gem. There’s not much to it, mostly just a handsome main street curving over the island’s backbone, but there’s something rather energising about crossing bridges to pop into town for your shopping, as if you’re entering a magic kingdom en route to pick up some black bacon at O’Doherty’s.The case against A touch grey around the gills; a bit of colour wouldn’t go amiss. The old centre is too small to sustain serious culture vultures. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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