Castles and forts in County Galway
The Discover Alone map has 439 castles and forts in County Galway, 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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Two Sisters Castles (in ruins)Castle — tower houseTwo Sisters Castles stood on a rocky hummock in Tullokyne, holding one tower for Muriertagh Oconor in 1574 while a…
Tower (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseCastle Ffrench is a four-storey tower built in 1683, standing in Galway pastureland beside its namesake ruin. Its walls…
Toberbrackan CastleCastle — unclassifiedToberbrackan Castle stands in County Galway, waiting for a name bright enough to match its shape. It is not a grand…
Tiaquin Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedTiaquin Castle stood on a slight Galway rise in 1574, held by Melaghlin OKelly, but time has reduced it to an uneven…
Thoor BallyleeCastleThoor Ballylee is a 15th-century tower house in County Galway that became the summer home of William Butler Yeats from…
Terryland Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedTerryland Castle stood on the east bank of the River Corrib opposite Newcastle, guarding a shallow fording point where…
Terryland CastleCastleDomynick Lynch held Terryland Castle in 1574, using its eastern bank position to watch river traffic and the nearby…
Strongfort Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseStrongfort Castle stands as a rectangular tower house beside the Dunkellin River in County Galway, built during the…
Site of Shanbally CastleCastle — unclassifiedShanbally Castle stands in County Galway, though no clear record explains when it was built or who lived there. The gap…
Site of Lisnamoltaun CastleCastle — unclassifiedLisnamoltaun Castle vanished from a steep Galway slope, leaving no stone or ditch for modern eyes to find. It may have…
Site of Kilcolgan CastleCastle — tower houseKilcolgan Castle rose as a tower house in County Galway, a vertical fist of stone built to watch the coast and command…
Site of Guairims CastleCastle — unclassifiedGuairims Castle may never have existed beyond a whispered tradition already fading in 1839. The harbour side of…
Site of Doonbally CastleCastle — unclassifiedDoonbally Castle stood on a Galway motte in 1574 under Thomas Balve before violence or decay scattered nine ten-ton…
Site of Doon CastleCastle — unclassifiedDoon Upper castle belonged to Tege McMelaghlin OKelly in 1574, when it stood within a marked enclosure. The walls have…
Site of Cloonoo CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloonoo Castle vanished into Galway pastureland, leaving only a low mound and scattered stones beside the Cloonoo East…
Site of Cloonigny CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloonigny Castle stood in flat Galway pastureland in 1574 under Shane ne Moy, but time erased its walls. Only shallow…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOn the E half of a small tree-covered island adjacent to the W shore of Lough Derg. Indicated by the symbol for ‘site…
Site of Castle ParkanassaCastle — unclassifiedCastle Parkanassa vanished before the 1838 survey, leaving behind a moated hollow and a local memory called Cloch Aill.…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedLissanard East, a castle site in County Galway, holds the promise of a forgotten stronghold. Whether it guarded a…
Site of Castle de BurghCastle — unclassifiedCastle de Burgh vanished completely from Cloonlee, leaving no wall, stone or ridge behind. It exists only through a…
Site of Castle CreevyCastle — unclassifiedCastle Creevy stands on a rocky outcrop above western bogland, preserving a rectangular bawn and three circular turrets…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloonacastle stands on a mossy motte in County Galway, marked only by a low circular wall that grass and forgotten time…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCahermorris Castle stood within a large Galway enclosure in 1570, belonging first to Burke of Castle Hackett and…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallycoony castle stood on a limestone outcrop in 1574, but time and perhaps deliberate destruction reduced it to a…
Site of Barna CastleCastle — unclassifiedSean Chaislean Bheárna stood on the western bank where Barna Stream meets White Strand Bay, occupied in 1574 by Owen…
Site of Ballyglass CastleCastle — unclassifiedMuddy Nuala, mother of David Burke, allegedly bred violence inside this castle before men forgot its shape. The…
Site of Ballygar CastleArchaeological placeBeallagharee castle vanished completely from the Galway landscape, leaving behind only a faint ground rise where stone…
Shanclogh Glebe House (in ruins)Castle — hall-houseShanclogh Glebe House stands as a ruined two-storey hall-house beside the Kilmacduagh cathedral, likely dating to the…
Roo Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRoo Castle stands in ruins near Dunkellin, County Galway, a tower house reduced to ghost walls and broken rooms. It is…
Rinvyle Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKanrawer’s four-storey tower still stands on a natural rise above the northern sea, though much of its north and east…
Renvyle CastleCastleRenvyle Castle stands in County Galway, a castle marked on an open map but denied the chance to speak its own history.…
Raruddy Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRaruddy Castle stands in ruins across Raruddy East and Raruddy West, a discarded tower house in County Galway. Its…
Rahaly Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRahaly Castle is a restored late-medieval tower house in County Galway, held by Richard Burke in 1574. Its narrow…
Pete’s CastleCastlePete’s Castle stands in County Galway, Ireland. The name suggests a person called Pete, yet no human story survives to…
Park CastleCastle — hall-houseCloch na pairce still holds a sharp angle inside Galway, its broken walls marking a thirteenth-century hall-house that…
Park CastleCastlePark Castle, also called Cooltymurraghy Castle, rose near Kiltormer in the late 1400s as an O’Kelly stronghold. The…
Pallas CastleCastle — tower housePallas Castle is a tower house in County Galway, Ireland. It stands as a National Monument, protected under law since…
Pallas CastleCastlePallas Castle is a five-storey Burke tower house built around 1500 in County Galway, still standing inside a rare…
Oghil Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseOghil Beg is a vanished tower house reduced to a shallow rectangular scar in Galway pasture, preserving only a low…
NewcastleCastle — unclassifiedTemplemoyle castle stood on a slight rise in pastureland to the southwest of Newcastle, held by Conogher OKelly in…
Moyode CastleCastleMoyode Castle is a four-storey limestone tower in County Galway that has watched the countryside since at least 1574.…
Moylough CastleCastleMoylough Castle is a three-storey rectangular keep in County Galway, built in the 13th century and still standing…
MoteCastle — motte and baileyCruckawootha, the Knock of the Moat, is a circular earth mound in Galway pasture, built near the end of the 12th…
Monivea CastleCastleMonivea Castle stood in County Galway as the heart of a 10,000-acre Ffrench estate from 1609 until 1939, binding…
Moneyduff Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedMoneyduff Castle stands as an unclassified ruin in County Galway, its walls reduced to a ghostly outline that refuses…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat, Moaty (kiltormer Ed) is a motte and bailey castle in County Galway, Ireland. The steep-sided mound rises 6.5m…
Merlin CastleCastle — tower houseMerlin Castle stands as a four-storey rectangular tower on a short rise in County Galway, surviving since 1574 when…
Menlo Castle Entrance ArchRuinsMarianne said the arch still belonged to the castle, not the road. The castle had gone to water and the arch had…
Menlo CastleCastleMenlo Castle stands ruined on the Corrib bank, its walls holding the ghost of Eleanor Blake, who vanished during the…
Lydacan Ho.Castle — tower houseLydacan Ho stands on a natural Galway rise where a later house swallowed the northern tower in 1992, leaving behind a…
Longford Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedLongford Castle stands in ruins within County Galway, its unclassified walls stripped of identity by time and distance.…
Lismore CastleCastle — tower houseLismore Castle stands in County Galway as a ruined tower house, its stone frame still marking the ground where power…
Lerhin CastleCastleLerhin Castle, Lerhin, County Galway: a ruined castle in rolling Galway pasture, recorded as belonging to a Burke…
Knockaunnageeragh Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedKnockaunnageeragh Castle stood on a Galway pasture rise when Jhonick fitz Thoms held it in 1574, but even its wall…
Kiltullagh Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKiltullagh Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Galway, its stones stripped of roof and purpose. The…
Kiltroge Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKiltroge Castle is a ruined tower house in Galway, recorded in 1574 in the possession of John Blake fitz Ric. Its…
Kiltartan Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleKiltartan Castle is a much-ruined 13th-century de Burgo castle on steep ground above the Gort River. Its square stone…
Kilskeagh castleCastleKilskeagh castle stands in County Galway, a stone sentinel from a world when local power answered to steel rather than…
Killure Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKillure Castle stands as a three-storey rectangular ruin in Galway pastureland, its doorway still guarded by a gun loop…
Killeen CastleCastle — tower houseKilleen Castle stands as a neat four-storey tower on a Galway byroad, already belonging to Burke men in 1574. Its north…