Castles and forts in County Cavan
The Discover Alone map has 87 castles and forts in County Cavan, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
Open County Cavan on the mapTurbet Island Castle Motte and BaileyArchaeological placeTurbet Island Castle Motte and Bailey stands in County Cavan, Ireland, preserving a raised earthwork and surrounding…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedO'Reilly castle, built around 1450 on a rocky hillock above an Annalee tributary, became the leading stronghold in…
Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedKnocknaveagh is a ghost castle in County Cavan, visible only in old map lines and memory. It may have stood as a small…
Sit of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedOld Castle at Corlat vanished so completely that no stone remains to mark its corner, leaving only a faint rectangular…
Sit of CastleCastle — motte and baileyStraheglin Castle rose on Turbet Island in 1210 to block the River Erne fording, but Aedh O'Neill broke the campaign…
RuinsHouse — fortified houseRedhill Demesne was a fortified house in County Cavan, built around the mid-18th century with roughly coursed limestone…
RahardrumCastle — unclassifiedOne of three islands in Lough Ramor, Rahardrum is an oval of grass and shadow, fifty metres long, cut from the mainland…
Port IslandCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleIn 1499, Con O'Rourke imprisoned Melaghlin Mac Rannall on this rocky island in Lough Macnean, forcing a man to breathe…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyRelagh Beg is a motte and bailey castle in County Cavan where a steep thirty-metre mound still rises beside a…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyKnockatemple is a motte and bailey castle on a narrow promontory in Lough Ramor, County Cavan. A wide deep fosse curves…
LissanoverCastle — unclassifiedLissanover is a vanished Cavan castle whose narrow rectangular shadow still lies buried beneath grass and memory. It…
Lismore CastleCastle — unclassifiedLismore Castle vanished before modern cameras, leaving no stone visible though maps marked it proudly in County Cavan.…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedKeelagh Castle vanished into a later house, its stones pulled apart and reborn in walls built a century after the…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Ballymagauran is a ruined tower house in County Cavan, Ireland. Rough limestone walls still stand two…
IdicatedCastle — unclassifiedIdicated in County Cavan is reputed to mark a 16th-century O'Reilly castle, though no stones or ditches still show…
Grilly Castle in RuinsCastle — unclassifiedGrilly Castle stood twenty metres long on a drumlin slope beside the old Belturbet road, possibly an O'Reilly…
Embanked enclosureBawnDonmory castle was a rectangular bawn on a SE-facing slope above Dunmurry Lough, large enough to hold horses, tools and…
Drumcarn Ho.Castle — unclassifiedDrumcarn Ho is a lost castle in County Cavan, buried beneath a modern farmyard after appearing on Petty's Survey in…
Crover Old Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseCrover Old Castle stands as a two-storey ruined tower on a rocky island in Lough Sheelin, built in the late 14th…
Cloone Ho.Castle — unclassifiedCloone Ho stands as the last visible wall of a house built in the late 1700s or early 1800s, marked on maps as Cloone…
Clogh Oughter CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleClogh Oughter castle is a large circular tower on a tiny island in Lough Oughter, built about 1220 by the Anglo-Norman…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle occupied the north end of a long drumlin ridge southeast of Cavan Town, probably an O'Reilly stronghold dating…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle is an unclassified castle in Rantavan, County Cavan, Ireland. A tower is indicated at Rantauan on Petty's Down…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Lisnamaine OR Sycamore Fields is a castle in Lisnamaine OR Sycamore Fields. John Fishe and…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedPetty's map of 1685 marked a castle in Lislin, though the Annalee River and human ambition have since erased most of…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Saunders stands near the summit of a high drumlin hill in Lislea, believed to mark a lost Saunderson stronghold…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Drumhome may have belonged to the O'Reilly before destruction in the first half of the 16th century. A faint…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Carrick guarded the Annalee River for the O'Reilly name, rising from a rocky plateau with corner towers and deep…
Castle SaundersonCastle — unclassifiedCastle Saunderson stands as a layered composite built across the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. It occupies…
Castle ruinsCastle — unclassifiedCaptain Gerald Fleming built a castle at Cabra in 1607, but the Williamite wars erased it. Later builders salvaged…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle is a large oval earthen mound in Dungummin Upper with scarped sides and a flattened summit about thirty-nine…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle rises on a high drumlin hill in Castlerahan, where two massive earth and stone banks still trap a deep central…
CastleCastle — motteCastle rises in Tanderagee as a steep-sided mound twenty-three metres across, split unevenly by a modern field boundary…
CastleCastle — motteCastle, motte in Moat stands in County Cavan, Ireland, where a steep-sided mound rises three to four metres above a…
CastleCastle — motteLavagh Castle rises as a steep circular mound within a green plantation, its flat top spanning twenty-two metres above…
CastleCastle — motte and baileyCastle, motte and bailey in Racraveen stands where a wide river bends to encircle its north-east half, leaving the rest…
CastleCastle — motte and baileyCastle in Kilmore Upper stands as an eight-metre motte and crescentic bailey built by de Lacy in 1211 before Cathal…
Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedConor O'Reilly probably built the Cordoagh castle in the 15th century, but the Fleming family held the land by 1641 and…
Castle CosbyCastle — unclassifiedCastle Cosby is a ruined castle in County Cavan, Ireland. A late medieval stone head is set into a modern…
Castel Bagshaw in RuinsCastle — unclassifiedCastel Bagshaw, built by Sir Hugh Wirrall in 1618 for Edward Bagshaw and later Thomas Richardson, has vanished entirely…
Bawn in Skeagh (clankee By.)BawnWilliam Hamilton built a plantation castle with a bawn and two flankers on a low hill west of Skeagh Lough Lower. The…
Bawn in MoynehallBawnMoynehall in County Cavan held a plantation house and bawn during the 17th century, though time has erased nearly every…
Bawn in KillyfanaBawnKillyfana in County Cavan may have contained Richard Tyrell's seventeenth-century bawn, a rectangular enclosure about…
Bawn in FarnhamBawnBawn in Farnham, County Cavan, Ireland: a stone house and sod bawn with four flankers, built in the second decade of…
Bawn in DrumsheilBawnBawn in Drumsheil was a clay and stone fortress built during the Plantation period on Castle Hill in County Cavan.…
Bawn in CastlepolesBawnOne bawn wall in Castlepoles defies easy belief. The facts point to two different places, eighty-five metres apart, and…
Bailieborough CastleCastle — unclassifiedCrocknahattin stood as a vaulted castle with two flanking towers and a ninety-foot square bawn, marking the site where…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedLismacanigan Upper in County Cavan may have held a castle built by Thomas Burton during the Cromwellian Settlement…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle is an unclassified ruin in County Cavan, Ireland, marked as a tower on Petty's Down Survey map of 1654.…
Bawn in DuffcastleBawnDuffcastle is a lost bawn in Crosserlough, County Cavan, drawn as a small rectangular fort on the eastern shoulder of a…
Bawn in LisdrumskeaBawnMorganatic bawn in Lisdrumskea, County Cavan. Piers built it, vanished it, and Shercock took the name. The castle may…
Ballyhaise Ho.Castle — unclassifiedThat is a useful reminder, but it is not a claim about the place. The facts above still do not identify the real…- Site of Old CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloghballybeg was an O'Reilly castle built in 1485 on a slight rise above Mullagh Lough. It passed to King James in…
- Ruin of OfficesHouse — fortified houseInishconnell holds the vanished office house of the Culme family, built beside Clough Oughter castle during the early…
- IndicatedBawnCastle Saunderson in County Cavan is a composite building assembled across the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early…
- IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedIndicated, Boagh is a vanished castle in County Cavan, Ireland, where a T-shaped house once stood before disappearing…
- IndicatedBawnAshgrove is a bawn in County Cavan where an 18th-century house sits atop massive vaulted foundations from an earlier…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedWilliam Hamilton raised a plantation castle with a bawn and two flankers on a low hill beside Skeagh Lough Lower. The…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Lisdrumskea, County Cavan, Ireland. Sir Henry Piers apparently built a bawn, castle and town at…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedFarnham castle built a stone house and sod bawn with four flankers during the second decade of the 17th century. Its…