Castles and forts in County Clare
The Discover Alone map has 317 castles and forts in County Clare, 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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Urlanbeg Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseUrlanbeg Castle stands in ruins in County Clare, a stripped tower house where the cliff wind still moves through broken…
Tyredagh Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseA narrow chamber hovers above a wicker-centred vault, its walls still standing while the roof and eastern door have…
Turlough CastleArchaeological placeMáire Rua held Turlough Castle through the blood and chaos of the mid-seventeenth century, denying every rival who…
Tullagh Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedMorrough O’ Brien raised Tullagh Castle before 1570 on the eastern edge of a Clare plateau, but greed and time reduced…
Tulla Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedDonell Reogh MacNamara built Tulla Castle on the hill in 1574, but the structure collapsed into ruin by 1613. Its…
Tromra CastleCastle — tower houseTromra Castle stands on marshy ground overlooking Mutton Island, a rectangular tower of local flagstone rising…
Toonagh Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedToonagh Castle belonged to the MacNamara family by 1580, occupying the south end of a low ridge where a stone outcrop…
Teerovannan Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseTeerovannan Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Clare, Ireland, where the MacNamara and O’Brien families…
Smithstown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMurrough O’Brien willed the rocky tower to his son Teige in 1551, beginning a lineage that held the stronghold through…
Smithstown/Ballynagowan Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseBallynagowan Castle stands in ruins at Smithstown, a tower house reduced to walls and memory. It belongs to the cluster…
Site of Tullamore CastleCastle — unclassifiedNo walls remain to prove the O'Brien blood or the losses suffered by Una and her daughter, leaving only a concrete yard…
Site of Lisdoonvarna CastleCastle — tower houseMnemo opened the first archive and watched the chamber appear through the floor. The castle stood complete in the…
Site of Fanta Cas.Castle — tower houseFanta Castle was an O’Connor tower house on a Clare pasture spur, later held by O’Briens and granted to Hyde and…
Site of Binroe CastleCastle — unclassifiedCaisleán na Binne Rua, the Castle of the Red Pinnacle, still holds its shape on the Ballymahony plateau despite…
Site of Ballymurphy CastleCastle — tower houseNo castle wall stands at Ballymurphy today because a bulldoer erased the last visible foundations in 1983. The lost…
Shanmuckinish CastleCastle — tower houseShanmuckinish Castle stands on a narrow isthmus dividing Muckinish Bay from Ballyvaughan Bay, its north wall already…
Shallee Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseShallee Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Clare, Ireland, where a four-storey stone structure still rises…
Roughan Castle (Supposed Site of)Castle — unclassifiedRoughan Castle vanished so completely that modern maps mark its supposed site with a humble cross inside an ancient…
Rossmanagher Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRossmanagher Castle stands in ruins in County Clare, Ireland, its tower house reduced to a skeleton of stone. The cliff…
Rosroe Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRosroe Castle stands in ruins near Cragroe, a tower house reduced to stones and memory. It belongs to the long list of…
Rathlaheen Castle (in Ruins) (1951-52)Castle — tower houseRathlaheen Castle stood as a tower house in County Clare, Ireland, before falling into ruin by 1951. Whether it guarded…
O'Dea CastleCastleO'Dea Castle is a fifty-foot limestone tower built between 1470 and 1490 by Diarmaid O'Dea, Lord of Cineal Fearmaic. It…
O'Brien's CastleCastleO'Brien's Castle stands in County Clare, named for a local family but never fully explained in the surviving facts.…
Newtown CastleCastle — tower houseNewtown Castle is one of only three cylindrical tower-houses in County Clare, standing on a steep ridge above a narrow…
Newtown Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedNewtown Castle stands in ruins within Newtown, County Clare, its stone frame stripped of roof and purpose. The exact…
Newtown CastleCastleNewtown Castle is a 16th-century tower house in Ballyvaughan, built by the O’Loghlen family between 1550 and 1570. Its…
Muckinish Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMuckinish Castle stands as a ruined four-storey tower house on the west shore of Pouldoody Bay, its limestone walls…
Moyhill Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedMoyhill Castle vanished before records began, leaving only a name and a hollow in the Clare earth. Whatever tower or…
Moy Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedMoy Castle stands in ruins on Moy Beg, County Clare, a lost castle marker rather than a described chamber. It may have…
Mooghaun castleCastleMooghaun castle rises from Mooghaun South as a ruined medieval tower house, its thick walls and narrow windows built to…
Milltown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseDomhnall MacConmara built the tower in 1490, but ivy has strangled the walls and a collapsed NE section now blocks the…
Magowna CastleCastleMagowna Castle stands in County Clare, Ireland. The name is written in a public map record, but the castle itself has…
Lissofin Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedLissofin Castle stands as a three-storey ruin on a limestone outcrop in County Clare, holding the memory of Hugh the…
Liscannor Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMortuary chests and chamber fragments still mark Liscannor Castle, though much of the tower house has gone. What…
Leamaneh Castle (in ruins)House — fortified houseLeamaneh Castle is a ruined fortified house where a fifteen-century tower still stands beside the services wing built…
Leamaneh Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseLeamaneh Castle is a ruined five-storey tower house built around 1490 by Turlough Donn O'Brien, King of Thomond, in…
Leamaneh CastleCastleLeamaneh Castle is a ruined tower house and mansion in County Clare, built around 1480 by Toirdhealbhach Donn Ó Briain…
Knocknagarhoon CastleRuinsKnocknagarhoon Castle stands in ruins across County Clare, its stones stripped of roof and purpose. The name itself…
Knockanalban Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedKnockanalban Castle belonged to the Mac Brody family during the 17th century, though no written history survives to…
Knappoge CastleCastle — tower houseKnappoge Castle stands in County Clare as a ruined tower house, its stones worn smooth by centuries of rain and wind.…
Killone Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedKillone Castle stands in ruins near Edenvale, County Clare, a forgotten stone anchor in the western landscape. Its…
Kilkeedy Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKilkeedy Castle stands as a ruined tower house on a limestone ridge above a turlough, where the O’Brien family held…
Johns Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedJohns Castle stands in ruins at Rineroe, County Clare, a broken stone shadow rather than a proud tower. It is an…_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5527885.jpg?width=1280)
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Muckinish West is a limestone bawn on a narrow isthmus in County Clare, clutching a ruined tower house…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseMoynoe Castle stands in County Clare as a ruined tower house, its stone walls still marking the ground where human…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Lissylisheen is a large rectangular bawn on a Clare karst plateau, its crude limestone walls still standing…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Lisdoonvarna is a rectangular bawn in County Clare, Ireland, measuring 117m north-south and 57m east-west.…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseKing Torlough built the rectangular tower in 1284, placing a stone fortress on a small island before most Irish lords…
IndicatedBawnHalf-buried in woodland near Corkscrew Hill, Gragan West still wears its gun loops and four-metre limestone walls. A…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseGarruragh Castle stands as a two-thirds storey limestone tower in County Clare, built around 1440-1480 by Donnchad…
IndicatedBawnFahee North is a diamond-shaped defensive bawn in County Clare, built with mortared stone walls, corner turret…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Bunratty East is a bawn in County Clare where the present wall stands upon foundations from an earlier…
IndicatedHouse — fortified houseIndicated was a fortified house in Ballysallagh West, County Clare, built to keep out the dangers of the age. It stood…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Ballyportry South is a narrow 17th-century bawn in County Clare, Ireland, built around Ballyportry Castle…
IndicatedBawnBallynalackan is a wide limestone bawn on a steep cliff in County Clare, holding a tower house in its southwest corner…
Inchovea Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedInchovea Castle stands half-ruined on a shale outcrop where the River Fergus bends sharply, its five-storey tower still…
Inchiquin Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseInchiquin Castle rose in 1459 as the seat of O’Brien kings and barons, defending a rocky bluff that jutted into the…
Gregan CastleCastleGregan Castle is a castle in County Clare, Ireland. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them…
Gleninagh CastleCastleGleninagh Castle is a sixteenth-century tower house in the Burren, built by the O'Loughlens to project power and resist…
Glencolumbkille CastleCastleGlencolumbkille Castle stands as a broken northwestern wall on a Clare hilltop, preserving a garderobe chute and…