Balfour Castle

Castle Balfour is a castle situated in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It was granted to Michael Balfour, Lord Balfour of Burleigh from Fife, Scotland, by King James I. The castle was altered in 1652 and damaged in 1689. The castle is a State Care Historic Monument, with a rectangular three storey building, on a north–south axis, the main block being 26m by 8m. It has the style of a Scottish castle and the building is thought to be the work of Lowland Scots masons. It has a square wing to the east and west and a later rectangular block on the northern end, with vaulted rooms, a kitchen with fireplace and oven on the ground floor, main dwelling rooms on the first floor and corbelled turrets with gun slits.