Castle Caldwell

A wooded peninsula near the west end of the lough with a jetty, forest trails, a ruined castle and a bird sanctuary.

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Castle Caldwell jetty

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About this mooring

Max. stay: Up to 48 hours; you may come back after at least 4 hours away

Forest-park jetty; car park, picnic area and trails ashore, no other services.

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Mooring limit: 48 hours at a public jetty

Public jetties on the Erne: stay up to 48 hours, then move on for at least 4 hours before coming back. For longer, ask the Lough Erne Warden or take a private berth; the Erne has no winter mooring. Erne boater information from Waterways Ireland

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Itineraries that stop here: The Erne end to end: Bellanaleck to Belleek and back
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About Castle Caldwell

Castle Caldwell Forest covers about 200 hectares of old woodland on two promontories near the western end of Lower Lough Erne, about 8 km from Belleek. The castle was first built in 1612; its ruin is closed for safety. In the 19th century the estate came to John Caldwell Bloomfield, who inherited it from his father and went on to help found Belleek Pottery in the 1850s. The forest and its small islands are a bird sanctuary monitored with the RSPB, and the site is one of the ways into the RSPB’s Lower Lough Erne Islands reserve. There is a jetty, a car park, a picnic area and three waymarked trails, with bluebells under the trees in May. At the entrance stands the Fiddler’s Stone, a stone fiddle about 1.5 m high remembering a local musician drowned in the lough in 1770. It is a peaceful stop with no shops.

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Castle Caldwell Forest trails

Three waymarked trails through old woodland and along the shore, with bluebells in May.
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Heritage
Castle Caldwell ruin and the Fiddler’s Stone

Ruins of the 1612 castle among the trees (seen from outside only, for safety), and a stone fiddle at the entrance remembering a fiddler drowned in 1770.