Castles and forts in County Kerry
The Discover Alone map has 165 castles and forts in County Kerry, 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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Tower (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedCahercullaun is a ruined cashel on the lower western slopes of Ballysitteragh mountain, where later builders added a…
Tarmon Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedNo stone or scar remains at Tarmon East, yet the third Lord Tarbert stood there around 1550, and his fathers likely did…
Site of Rockfield Ho.Castle — unclassifiedRockfield House may occupy the exact ground where the medieval castle of Lermerichaell stood before King James I…
Site of McElligotts CastleCastle — unclassifiedCarrignafeela is the vanished castle of the MacElligots, reduced by 1941 to stone mounds and a faint foundation beside…
Site of McElligotts CastleCastle — unclassifiedArabela holds the remains of McElligotts Castle, a tower house belonging to a potent Kerry family. The earthworks still…
(Site of) Desmond CastleCastle — unclassifiedDesmond Castle stood on a steep hill in Tooreen, County Kerry, where the Earl of Desmond reportedly took refuge before…
Site of Currans CastleCastle — unclassifiedCurrans Castle vanished so completely that an 1841 survey doubted it ever existed, yet maps drew a tower house where…
Site of CourtCastle — unclassifiedCastlefarm rises on a limestone shelf in County Kerry, where a broken rectangular wall still stands inside a faint…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedLiscahane stands as an unclassified castle in County Kerry, Ireland. A preservation order under the National Monuments…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedFormaoil Castle vanished before Fermoyle House rose, leaving no wall for modern eyes to judge. In 1843, diggers broke…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOne stone survived the erasure of Castlegregory, lifted from the ruins and set into Edenburn House, while other…
Site of Camp CastleCastle — unclassifiedCamp Castle stood above Tralee Bay, possibly raised by a branch of the FitzGeralds, but time has reduced it to a low…
Site of Ballingolin CastleArchaeological placeBallingolin Castle stands as a lost shape in County Kerry, its stones perhaps scattered or buried while the land keeps…
Site of Ardnagragh CastleCastle — unclassifiedArdnagragh Castle stood at the foot of Slievelogher in County Kerry, built by the Fitzgeralds according to local…
Short Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedNo wall or room remains, only a raised platform eighteen metres long beside the Killinane church, yet that flat scar…
Shanagarry Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedShanagarry Castle stood on the north side of the Roughty River valley until quarrying removed it completely. By 1841…
ruined castleCastleruined castle is a castle in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps stones from the castle wall fell into the soil and grew…
Ross Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRoss Castle stands as a four-storey limestone tower on Ross Island, its spiral stairs and corner bartizans preserving…
Rahinnane Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRahinnane Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Kerry, its battered base and projecting turret still marking…
Parkavonear CastleCastleParkavonear Castle is a 13th-century Anglo-Norman ruin in Aghadoe, County Kerry, built after the 1169 invasion and…Pallis Castle (Site of)Castle — tower houseBeneath the pasture north of Pallis Farm, MacCarthy More once lived inside a tower house that overlooked the Laune…
OutlinedBawnBallycarbery East stands as a broken bawn on the River Ferta, its western wall still rising four metres above the tide…
Moorestown CastleCastleMoorestown Castle stood as a five-cornered stronghold overlooking the Feohanagh river, marking Moore control of that…
Minard Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMinard Castle stands as the last FitzGerald tower house built on the peninsula, surviving less than a century before…
McCarthy Mor CastleCastleMcCarthy Mor Castle stands as a scattered ruin in County Kerry, Ireland. Its stones still catch the eye beside the lake…
Mc Crehins Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedLetirmiccrohan is a flat, mossy mound on the lower slopes of Bentee mountain, marked only by a faint bank and a wide…
Kilmurry CastleCastleKilmurry Castle stands north of Cordal village in County Kerry, joining a sixteenth-century tower house with a…
Killaha Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseKillaha Castle is a four-storey tower house built for the O'Donoghue of Glenflesk in the late 1500s or early 1600s.…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseKilliney is an Early Christian church and graveyard where a leaning tower still butts against the worship room. The…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedBallycarty Castle probably stood on the River Lee bank near Tralee, sheltering hundreds of frightened people during the…
Gallarus Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseGallarus Castle stands as a four-storey FitzGerald tower house on the south shore of Smerwick Harbour, holding its…
Flesk CastleCastleFlesk Castle stood in County Kerry as a Georgian Gothic country house built for John Coltsman between 1809 and 1815.…
Ferriters Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseFerriters Castle rose on Doon Point as a sturdy tower house for the Ferriter family, who held the land from the 13th…
Fermoyle Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseFermoyle Castle was a small tower house built in the early seventeenth century by the O'Sullivans of Formoyle and…
Fenit Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseFenit Castle stands as a four-story limestone tower on a narrow neck of rock, its north and west walls still touching…
Dunkerron CastleCastleDunkerron Castle is a ruined four-storey tower house in Templenoe, County Kerry, built in the 13th century as a Carew…
Doon Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedDoon Castle stands as a vanished guard post on a Kerry precipice, built by the Lords of Kerry to watch the northern…
Dookeenee CastleCastleDookeenee Castle stands in County Kerry, Ireland, where stone walls still touch sky and memory. Its shape resists easy…
Cloonmealane CastleCastleCloonmealane Castle stands in ruins on the lands of Michael Daly in County Kerry, linked by local story to Molahiffe…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle of the Earl of Desmonds rose at the north end of Denny St, holding Tralee through medieval and turbulent…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Meenogahane stands in County Kerry, Ireland. Mín Ó gCatháin still carries the name of the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Listrim vanished before it could be measured, leaving only a name and a quarter of land worth sixty-six…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedLiscahane holds an unclassified castle in County Kerry, but no public detail explains whether it was a fortress, a…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Garrywilliam is an underground passage now lost beneath a ordinary field boundary at the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloonmore still hides the castle named in a 1587 gift to Sir Francis Walshingham and Edward Denny, though no wall or…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Ballycarbery East stands on a slight eminence above the tidal estuary of the River Ferta, its…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle stands unclassified in Ballingowan, County Kerry, its true purpose hidden behind a gap in official knowledge.…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallingolin Castle belonged to the Rice family before forfeiture and destruction prior to 1641. Frederick Mullins…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland. Ardfert Castle (site of). The castle originally lay E of Ardfert Cathedral…
CastleCastle — tower houseRahoneen Castle is a tower house in County Kerry, Ireland. It stands on a rise above Carrahane Bay and was once the…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle, tower house in Lough Currane, County Kerry, Ireland. Illauntinny / Oileán na Tine: This subaqueous site…
CastleCastle — tower houseKilcolman Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Kerry, its stone walls reduced to fragments despite lacking…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle is a ruined tower house in Clashmelcon, built possibly by the pirate Browne family in the mid-15th century…
CastleCastle — tower houseMaurice Fitzgerald built the first castle at Killorglin in 1215, but the surviving tower house belongs to Jenkin…
CastleCastle — tower houseBeaufort House stands on the western bank of the River Laune, built directly over the buried foundations of Short…
CastleCastle — tower houseBallybunnion Castle stands on a cliff summit inside an older fort, its twelve-metre east wall still marking the house…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle stands in Ballybeggan, County Kerry, a tower house built to watch the land and perhaps withstand the kind of…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle in Ballinruddery is a ruined tower house from the 15th to 16th centuries, with walls still standing about 15.4m…
Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedArdtully castle stood in level pasture where the Owbeg and Roughty Rivers meet, lost after Colonel Donough MacFineen…
Castle (Site of)Castle — tower houseAn Daingean, a tower house possibly built by Peter Rice, stood at the junction of Green St and Main St before the…