Castles and forts in County Dublin
The Discover Alone map has 198 castles and forts in County Dublin, 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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Westown HouseCastle — tower houseWestown House is an eighteenth-century mansion in County Dublin that swallowed an older tower house and the ground…
Tymon CastleCastle — tower houseYou must imagine that one tower contained a winding stair and the other resisted every attempt to force its way in. The…
Turvey HouseCastle — tower houseTurvey House, a tower castle for the Barnewall family in County Dublin, still holds fragments of its three building…
Tower (in ruins), Castle and ChapelCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleSwords Castle rose around AD 1200 as the Archbishop of Dublin's manorial seat, enclosing one and one third acres within…
TowerCastle — tower houseDonabate Tower is a three-storey stone chamber attached to the east end of St Patrick's Church, rising beside the…
The OrchardsCastle — unclassifiedOrchards is the renamed Rathmines Castle, a 17th century mansion built by Sir George Radcliffe and caught in the Battle…
Swords CastleCastleSwords Castle is a vast pentagonal enclosure in County Dublin, built around 1200 for Archbishop John Comyn. Its…
St Josephs Asylum for the BlindCastle — unclassifiedDrumcondra Castle rose in 1561 for John Bathe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, its thick walls and vaulted rooms built to…
Site of Donore Castle indicatedCastle — unclassifiedDonore Castle stood inside a medieval borough recorded in Alen's Register for 1228, but no wall, trench or stone still…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedWolverston Castle stood on the north side of Castle Street until men broke it open in the 1840s and carried its stones…
Site of CastleCastle — tower houseCappoge Castle was a three-storey tower house with a south-eastern corner turret, standing inside a walled enclosure…
Simmonscourt CastleCastle — tower houseSimmonscourt Castle stood east of the Dodder in County Dublin, its tower house visible in Beranger's 1766 drawings…Shanganagh CastleCastle — tower houseShanganagh Castle stood above Bride's Glen from 1408 until fire consumed it in 1763, leaving only an ivy-strangled…
Seatown CastleCastle — tower houseSeatown Castle is a two-storey tower house on the south side of the Malahide estuary, incorporated into the east end of…
Roebuck CastleCastle — unclassifiedMortars from the 1641 Rebellion tore through the first castle, yet Roebuck reappeared in the 1790s with its old…
Rathgar CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathgar Castle belonged to the Cusack family from the early 17th century and faced destruction during the Battle of…
Rathfarnham CastleHouse — fortified houseRathfarnham Castle stands at the foot of the Dublin Mountains as a large semi-fortified house built by the Loftus…
Puck's CastleCastlePuck's Castle stands as a three-storey ruin in Rathmichael, built around 1537 by Peter Talbot to resist O'Toole…
Old Rathfarnham Castle Gate HouseRuinsOld Rathfarnham Castle Gate House stands in ruins within County Dublin, a forgotten threshold where a great estate once…
Norman MotteCastleNorman Motte is a castle in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps its earthwork still holds the shape of a hand that threw…
Nangor castleCastle — unclassifiedNangor castle in County Dublin, Ireland, was a real home for Ffinian Bassenett in 1532, but human greed and…
Murphystown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMurphystown Castle is a fragment of a probable tower house inside the entrance gate of the British Embassy. Two granite…
Mote (site of)Castle — motteThat mound may have been a castle for the Crown, watching the church and graveyard from the east before men forgot its…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat, Sainthelens is a flat-topped elongated mound in County Dublin, Ireland, where a narrow fosse still guards the…
MoatCastle — motteMallahow is a castle motte in County Dublin, Ireland, built as a flat-topped circular mound on a south-facing slope. It…
Martello Tower No.7 Killiney - Killiney HillFortMartello Tower No.7 Killiney - Killiney Hill is a fort in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps soldiers watched Dublin Bay…
Malahide CastleCastle — tower houseMalahide Castle has stood on its elevated ground since Henry II granted the lands to the Talbot family in 1174, making…
Malahide Castle Demesne Church (Ruin)RuinsMalahide Castle Demesne Church stands in ruins within County Dublin, its broken walls still marking the place where…
Magazine FortCastleMagazine Fort is a brick and limestone bastion in Phoenix Park, Dublin, built in 1735 by John Corneille to store…
Luttrellstown CastleCastleLuttrellstown Castle rose in Clonsilla around 1420 for the Luttrell family, who held the land since King John granted…
Lanestown Castle in ruinsCastle — tower houseLanestown Castle stands as a three-storey tower house inside the entrance gates of Newbridge House, its stepped…
Kilgobbin CastleCastleKilgobbin Castle is a villa-like house in County Dublin that likely grew from Bayly's Cabin, where Emanuel James Bayly…
Kilbride Castle (site of)Castle — unclassifiedKilbride Castle vanished so completely that farm buildings now occupy its valley floor, denying the site even the…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseKinure, now Rush Demesne, has stood as an Ormond manor since Edward 1st, its square limestone tower watching the coast…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Newcastle North is a broad flat-topped motte built around 1200 AD in a level pasture field west of the…
Howth CastleCastle — tower houseHowth Castle stands on the northern edge of Howth Head, its three-storey tower house and corner turrets overlooking…
Howth CastleCastleHowth Castle is a former private dwelling house in County Dublin, Ireland. It is a castle that has changed from…
HouseHouse — fortified houseDonnybrook castle stood as a fortified Elizabethan mansion built by the Ussher's in 1560, dominating the Unknown…
HouseHouse — fortified houseThe fortified house in Howth stands as a T-shaped three-storey building from the late fifteenth or sixteenth century…
Hampstead CastleCastle — unclassifiedHampstead Castle stood in County Dublin as a rectangular stone house with a walled western garden, visible on maps from…
GlencairnCastleGlencairn is a castle in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them…
Finglaswood HouseCastle — tower houseFinglaswood House was a square tower for the Seagrave family, its walls thick enough to hide a gun loop and its doorway…
Dubber Castle (site of)Castle — unclassifiedDubber Castle rose behind the present house between 1582 and 1611, built by Sir Christopher Daniel Bellingham before he…
Drumluck CastleCastle — unclassifiedDrumluck Castle stood on a sloping promontory under pasture until demolition removed it before 1937. It faced the cliff…
Drimnagh CastleCastleDrimnagh Castle is the only surviving Irish castle with a flooded moat, a rare feature that still catches the eye in…
Depicted Kilshane MoatCastle — motteKilshane Moat stands as a substantial circular castle mound in County Dublin, marked on old maps and confirmed by…
Dalkey Island BatteryFortDalkey Island Battery stands as a forgotten fort in County Dublin, its stones buried under grass and time. It guarded…
Corr CastleCastle — tower houseCorr Castle is a three-storey tower house belonging to the White family in the 16th century, hidden inside a modern…CornelscourtCastle — tower houseCornelscourt was a thatched castle belonging to the Cheever family, reduced by 1781 to a lower arch and part of a first…
Corballis Castle (site of)Castle — unclassifiedNo visible wall or chamber survives above the airport floor, yet the lost castle still occupies the earth beneath…
Connaberry MoatCastle — motte and baileyConnaberry Moat is a hidden castle mound southwest of Dunsoghly Castle, marked on the 1837 OS map but now buried…
Colmanstown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseColmanstown Castle stood as a square three-storey tower house beside a separate gateway in a hollow, waterlogged Dublin…
Clontarf CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleClontarf Castle is an Anglo-Norman masonry castle in County Dublin, Ireland. Adam de Phephoe and later the Knights…
Clonskeagh CastleCastleClonskeagh Castle stands in County Dublin, a castle marked on the open map but denied the chance to tell its own story.…
Castleknock CastleCastleCastleknock Castle rose as a Norman stone fortress in the late 12th century when Hugh Tyrrel claimed the land to…
Castle Yard BuildingsRuinsCastle Yard Buildings stands in ruins within County Dublin, Ireland. The remaining structure marks a lost chapter of…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedWoodville, an 18th-century mansion on the south bank of the Liffey, occupied the lost site of Ballydowd Castle before…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle was probably a gate tower for a much larger complex, not a standalone fortress. That distinction matters because…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedSandymount Castle Avenue still carries the name of a lost castle, though no wall or tower remains for anyone to touch.…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedDuncan's 1821 map marked Rowlagh Castle as defaced, but a modern housing estate now covers the site and no stone…