Castles and forts in County Carlow
The Discover Alone map has 106 castles and forts in County Carlow, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Tinahinch Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseTinnahinch Castle is a ruined tower house in County Carlow, built probably in the 1630s by James Butler. Its stair…
St. Mullins MoatCastle — motte and baileySt. Mullins Moat rises nine metres above the Carlow ridge, a steep mound circled by a deep fosse and a rectangular…
Site of Clonmullen CastleCastle — unclassifiedClonmullen Castle vanished completely, leaving no wall, trench or shadow behind. It sat on a rise in a stream valley in…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKillerrig castle vanished into a rectangular patch of trees in County Carlow, leaving behind only a line of boulders…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKellistown West castle appeared on the Down Survey map in 1655-6, but human hands had already reduced it to level…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedThe following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedClowater Castle vanished before human memory, leaving only a farmyard and a ghost on old maps. What remains is absence…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBennekerry castle vanished before human memory, leaving only a level patch of grass two hundred metres from Graigue…
Rathnageeragh Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedRathnageeragh Castle stands as a ruined square gatehouse in County Carlow, its two storeys and angle tower reduced to…
Pollmounty Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower housePollmounty Castle was a rectangular tower house destroyed by gunpowder, leaving massive granite walls scattered twenty…
Huntington CastleHouse — fortified houseHuntington Castle in County Carlow is a fortified house first built in 1625, later extended in 1680, 1720 and 1860. It…
Graiguenaspiddoge Castle in ruinsCastle — tower houseGraiguenaspiddoge Castle stood in County Carlow as a rectangular granite tower house, its walls rising three metres…
Graiguealug Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedGraiguealug Castle vanished completely, leaving no visible trace despite appearing in ruins on the 1839 map. Local…
Graigue Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedGraigue Castle vanished completely, leaving no visible trace despite appearing as a rectangular structure on an 1839…
Friarstown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseFriarstown Castle is a ruined tower house in County Carlow where granite angles still rise from rubble. It belonged to…Dunleckny Ho.Castle — unclassifiedDunleckny Ho. stands in County Carlow as a castle whose identity remains unclassified. It appeared on the Down Survey…
Coppenagh CastleCastle — tower houseCoppenagh Castle stands in County Carlow as a ruined tower house, its granite boulders still aligned northwest to…
Clonogan Castle (site of)Castle — unclassifiedClonogan Castle belonged to the Earls of Kildare before forfeiture in 1534, but a 1540 valuation already called it…
Clonmore MoatCastle — motte and baileyClonmore Moat rises nine metres above the Carlow field, a steep mound guarding a trapezoidal bailey wide enough for a…
Clonmore Castle (in Ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleClonmore Castle is a thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman fortress built from coursed granite rubble, its square courtyard…
Castlegrace MoatCastle — motteCastlegrace Moat stands as a seven-metre gravel mound in County Carlow, possibly marking the castle Hugh de Lacy built…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle stands in Williamstown, County Carlow, marked on the Down Survey map of 1655-6 but reduced to a debris mound…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle stood on an island in the River Barrow, built by the St Leger family before passing through Butler hands to the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Straboe vanished beneath Carlow soil, leaving only faint rectangular shadows visible when crops grow tall. It…
CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleCastle, Carlow is an Anglo-Norman masonry castle in County Carlow, Ireland. Its large rectangular three-story limestone…
Black Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseBlack Castle rose in 1320 to guard the Leighlinbridge crossing, though most surviving stone dates from the sixteenth…
Ballynunnery Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedBallynunnery Castle in County Carlow keeps a twelve-foot tower and walls five feet thick, large enough to suggest a…
Ballymoon Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleBallymoon Castle rose around a square courtyard near Ballymoon, its granite walls defending a hall where seven private…
Ballyloughan Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleBallyloughan Castle is a late thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman fortress in County Carlow, built with a rectangular…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedHaroldstown once held a castle beside its church and abbey, but O'Donovan found no definite traces in 1839. The site…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Garryhill, County Carlow, Ireland. Local tradition claims it stood beside Garryhill House…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedMoyle Big is a castle erased by time, marked only on an 1839 map in County Carlow. No wall, ditch or stone remains for…
CastleCastle — motteDunleckny Castle is a large oval mound beside a church in County Carlow, Ireland. It may have been a motte, though no…
CastleCastle — motteCastle in Tullowphelim was a motte built by Hugh de Lacey around 1181, but no visible trace remains. It vanished…- Site of Fardurraghnagransbys CastleCastle — unclassifiedFardurraghnagransbys Castle vanished before modern memory, leaving only a curving wall in a private photograph and a…
- Site of Fardarraghnagranshy's CastleArchaeological placeFardarraghnagranshy's Castle has vanished except for the memory embedded in its name, leaving County Carlow to imagine…
- Site of Ballinree CastleArchaeological placeBallinree Castle stands as a lost architectural shadow in County Carlow, its stones perhaps scattered or buried beneath…
- Rathvilly MoatCastle — motte and baileyKnockroe Castle stands as a steep-sided motte on a broad Carlow hill, its summit flattened and sides cut back to create…
- Marked as White CastleCastle — tower houseWhite Castle in Graigue-Cullen, County Carlow, likely marked a tall tower house on the western riverbank. Leases and…
- Knockallow RathFortKnockallow Rath stands as a fort in County Carlow, its earthworks marking a boundary between human ambition and natural…
- Johnstown HouseCastle — unclassifiedMarianne dropped the last coin into the bowl and waited for the kitchen to answer. It did not ring. It breathed…
- Dunleckny ManorCastleDunleckny Manor is a castle in County Carlow where a 19th-century house absorbed an early 17th-century structure…
- Clogrenan CastleCastle — tower houseClogrenan Castle stood as a four-storey tower house at a vital River Barrow crossing, built by the Butlers in the 15th…
- Castletown CastleCastle — tower houseCastletown Castle in County Carlow is a late eighteenth-century house wrapped around the buried bones of an older…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Rathvilly: Hugh de Lacy built it, Edward III granted it in 1347, it broke in 1650, and people…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathtoe castle appeared on the Down Survey in 1655 but vanished from every later record, denying scholars the chance to…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Rathmore, County Carlow, appeared among eight principal castles of Carlow in 1589, yet its walls vanished…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Rathellin appeared on the Down Survey map of 1655-6 but vanished from the land before anyone recorded where…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathcrogue Castle vanished before human memory, leaving only a tower mark on a 1655 survey and no trace for later eyes.…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Powerstown resists definition, neither mapped nor measured, yet it occupies the townland completely. Clarke…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Nurney appeared on the Down Survey map of 1655-6 but vanished from the land before anyone recorded where it…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle is a castle in Moanmore (idrone West By.), County Carlow, Ireland. It is unclassified, but it is not empty of…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedKillenora may hide a lost castle, though no wall or chamber remains visible to mark the claim. The townland could have…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilknock Castle vanished before records finished naming it, leaving only a house on a slight rise and a garden wall…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedGarryhundon once held a castle, though no wall or room remains visible to mark the claim. Clarke named the lost…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle appears on the Down Survey map of 1655-6 near Clonmoney House, though its exact stones have vanished. It may be…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Chapelstown. James I granted the castle, town and lands to Sir Charles Wilmott on 26th January…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedFive chains north of Castlemore moat, an Eustace castle vanished so completely that even its exact spot escaped memory.…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedBorris House in County Carlow still holds rooms carved from an older castle, though no clear name or date has emerged…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Ballyvolden appears on the Down Survey map of 1655-6, yet its exact location has vanished. A building large…