What is recorded here
Ardtarmon Castle stands in County Sligo as a detached two-storey fortress built around 1640, featuring circular towers and square-headed windows that mark it as a transitional early-seventeenth century semi-fortified house. Though renovated for residential use, it retains original features like painted stepped roughcast chimneystacks and a pointed-arch door opening to the base of the south tower. The structure bridges military defence and domestic comfort, revealing how power and hospitality intertwined in that era.
Ardtarmon Castle is recorded as a castle in County Sligo. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Ardtarmon Castle was built by the O'Connors of Sligo in the 15th or 16th century and is remembered as a historic example of Gaelic Irish castle architecture in western Ireland.
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Ardtarmon Housecountry house · 822 yd
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