These items represent the Movement and Migration section of the Fermanagh 100.
1. Lough Erne Steam Locomotive
“Lough Erne” is a railway locomotive built for a Fermanagh railway and named after Fermanagh’s famous waterways. “Lough Erne” is the last of its type, one of the last two conventional steam locomotives built for an Irish Railway. The engine was built for the last privately owned railway in the British Isles, all other systems having been nationalised by that time; post 1948.
Commissioned Researcher: Alan Devers

Lough Erne Steam Locomotive Name Plate. ©Fermanagh County Museum.
2. Bone Shaker Bicycle
Fermanagh County Museum
This bicycle is quite dinstinctive due to the colour of the wheels which are black and yellow. It was nicknamed the ‘Bone Shaker’. Newspaper article published by ‘The Impartial Reporter’ on 30/12/1971. The bicycle was imported by the Singer Co. England and was owned and used by Dr. John Reid of Rockfield, Florencourt. He bought it while he was a student at T.C.D. and used while conducting his medical practices at Florencecourt in the 1870s.
Commissioned Researcher: Jenny Cathcart

Bone Shaker Bicylce ©Fermanagh County Museum
3. Lough Erne clinker-built rowing boat
Fermanagh County Museum (model of a clinker boat)
Clinker built yawls were introduced to the North coast in late 1700s and spread around the coast of Donegal to Donegal Bay. Yawls similar to these were used on Lough Erne in the late 1800s and early 1900s and may have been introduced from Donegal Bay. Ballyshannon was the port for Fermanagh and through Belleek and Lower Lough Erne goods were often transported to Enniskillen.
Commissioned Researcher: Fred Ternan

Model Clinker Boat ©Fermanagh County Museum
4. Charlotte Medal
The Charlotte medal is regarded as Australia’s first colonial work of art. On one side, it depicts the ship resting at anchor in Botany Bay and, on the other, precise details, in terms of latitude and longitude, about the major places they either passed or stopped at during the eight-month voyage. Fermanagh man, John White, surgeon-general of the First Flee commissioned Thomas Barrett, a forfer, to engrave a medal celebrating the ship’s safe arrival in Botany Bay on 20 January 1788
5. Barton spoon
Fermanagh County Museum
The Barton spoon was made in 1761 and has the initials J.S. engraved on it. The initials J.S. identify the silversmith as John Shiels, (also Sheils) who at that time was in his final year of apprenticeship to Robert Calderwood, a highly regarded Irish silversmith. Shiels worked from 1762-1790 on upper Ormonde Quay in the centre of Dublin. On the front of the spoon is the crest of the Barton family – a boar’s head – and the script initials H B. Thomas Barton (1553-1626), originally from Norwich in Norfolk (Trimble, 1919, 1, 182) was the first Barton to settle in north Fermanagh.

Barton Spoon ©Fermanagh County Museum
Commissioned Researcher: Helen Lanigan Wood
6. Knockninny: Belleek Plate
Private Ownership
This plate, of which only a handful of copies remain, was commissioned by the Knockninny Hotel, one of Fermanagh’s first tourist hotels. Located approximately ten miles upstream of Enniskillen and the same distance from Belturbet further upstream near the head of the upper lake, it nestles on the banks of Upper Lough Erne with the imposing Knockninny Hill at its rear. The plate was made at the world-renowned Belleek Pottery Works, although its precise origins remain unclear.
Commissioned Researcher: Marion Maxwell
7. Emigration Object
To be decided
Commissioned Researcher: Frank McHugh
8. Gaol doors/keys/skull
Fermanagh County Museum
The County Gaol was built between 1812-1815 at the Gallows Green. It was built to house 120 prisoners. It was designed by Richard Morrison, who created a cruciform block surrounded by a high wall. The gaol was later extended c.1850.The area assumed the name Gaol Square & Gaol Street – running from the Gaol to the East Bridge.Executions were not common, but when held where over the steps leading to the entrance door of the prison. The last public executions were on 9 August 1849 when huge crowds gathered to see Thomas Kerr & Thomas Wilson hung for committing murder.

Gaol Doors ©Fermanagh County Museum

Gaol Doors ©Fermanagh County Museum
9. Mischief half boat design. (Fairy yacht 1905-07)
Fermanagh County Museum
Owned and designed by Henry (Jack) Tipping of Rossferry on the Upper Lough. The Mischief was built by Enniskillen yacht builder Charlie McCabe (c.1840-1917). She was one of a number of boats he built and rated 20 tons for racing handicap purposes. her rating length was 37.45 ft (longer again overall), beam 12.4 ft and depth of hull 5ft with an Erne type of lifting keel, as shown on the model; the first type of centreboard to be used in Europe. The ‘Doris,’ designed by George L Watson was regarded as unbeatable, but was beaten in 1887 by the Mischief in Dublin.
Commissioned Researcher: Michael Clarke

Mischief Half Boat Design ©Fermanagh County Museum
10. 18th c Penal crosses. Lough Derg pilgrimage
Fermanagh County Museum & Private Ownership
Lough Derg Pilgrimage Crosses were carved by local people in the vicinity of the pilgrimage and dated the year they were made. They would have been blessed by the pilgrimage clergy and were symbols indicating that the individual had completed the arduous religious undertaking which included fasting, barefoot prayer on stony ground and a death and rebirth experience involving an all-night vigil. People attended this pilgrimage and other pilgrimages for many reasons such as their own personal salvation, relief from sickness, success in business or marriage etc.
Commissioned Researcher: John Cunningham

Penal Cross owned by Mrs Ann Cunnigham. Copyright Fermanagh County Museum.