ENNISKILLEN

=ENNISKILLEN=
 * We have spent two days in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, mainly because Gail’s father’s great, great grandfather came from this area.

Abraham Heazlett was born on a farm in Relagh and worked a farm at Glenwinny. These are both just locations near a small town called Derrygonnelly but, with some help from a genealogy bloke in Enniskillen (no charge), and a bit of advice from local farmers on the way, we managed to find them and even the actual farmhouse he and his wife Sarah lived in until 1851 when they migrated to Australia.

The farmhouse was occupied as late as 1996 but is now just a ruined building – still it was interesting to stand there and imagine a previous life.

Abraham’s son, David, had previously joined the British army and been sent to Tasmania as a convict guard, so we visited Enniskillen Castle and barracks to see where he would have enlisted – all very jolly eh? || ||
 * [[image:IMG_1608.jpg caption="Watergate towers in the Castle"]] || [[image:IMG_1614.jpg caption="Barracks"]] ||
 * [[image:IMG_1658.jpg caption="a couple of farmsheds - one was obv a cowshed"]] || [[image:IMG_1655.jpg caption="the front of Abraham's famrhouse"]] ||
 * [[image:IMG_1659.jpg caption="the only inhabitant of the old farm these days (not Gail)"]] || [[image:IMG_1669.jpg caption="a property in the Relagh locality"]] ||

On our genealogy man’s advice we followed a narrow road to a fabulous viewpoint overlooking the whole valley and Lough Erne.
 * [[image:IMG_1641.jpg caption="yes, it was cool!"]] || [[image:IMG_1630.jpg]] ||