Castles and forts in County Kilkenny
The Discover Alone map has 435 castles and forts in County Kilkenny, 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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White Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedBallycocksoost, County Kilkenny: white castle vanished, walls gone or buried, name preserved in local memory. Nothing…
West CourtCastle — unclassifiedWestcourt Demesne held the old manor house of Callan, passing through Ormond and Desart hands before Lord Callan…
Wellington Ho.Castle — unclassifiedCaherlesk was a large castellated house in County Kilkenny, recorded on the 1655-6 Down Survey with seven smaller…
Water TowerCastleWater Tower stands as a castle in County Kilkenny, its name suggesting a defensive purpose tied to local waterways or a…
Upper CourtCastle — unclassifiedUpper Court, Upperwood Demesne was a crenelated castle inside a large bawn with three towers, drawn in the Down Survey…
TurretBawnOn limestone outcrop on the S bank of the River Goul, with a fording pointing (KK012-001003-) immediately N-NE of the…
Tullagher Castle (site of)Archaeological placeTullagher Castle (site of) still lies hidden beneath County Kilkenny soil, waiting for someone to scratch back the…
Tubbrid Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseTubbrid Castle stands as a four-storey tower house on a slight rise above the Nuenna river valley, likely dating from…
TowerCastle — tower houseKilfane Demesne stands in County Kilkenny, where a red sandstone tower leans against a medieval church like a guard who…
Tower (in ruins)BawnAnnamult bawn stood on a west-facing brow above County Kilkenny, watching the land for Duiske Abbey from the early 13th…
TowerHouse — fortified houseCastle Eve is a ruined fortified house in County Kilkenny where the D’Erleys and later the Sweetmans held power from…The RockCastle — ringworkThe Rock of the Eagle stands at the north end of a ridge, dropping ten metres into the confluence of the Nore and Dinin…
The GarrisonCastle — motteA tall earthen mound still rises beside Castlecomer House, marking the castle burned by the O’Brenans before 1200 and…
Site of Shanganny CastleCastle — unclassifiedShanganny Castle lost its walls to human hands, yet a shallow terrace and buried footings still mark the place where it…
Site of Raheenmore CastleCastle — unclassifiedRaheenmore Castle vanished so completely that modern maps misname it, yet a 1640 terrier still claimed old castle runs…
Site of Lavistown CastleCastle — unclassifiedLavistown Castle stood in County Kilkenny when Thomas Denn owned it in 1640, and the Down Survey still marks its place…
Site of Kilkieran CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilkieran Castle vanished into a wet marshy field, leaving only a slight rise and a stream to mark where Nicholas…
Site of Dungarvan CastleCastle — tower houseDungarvan Castle stood as a small tower house at the eastern edge of the medieval borough, guarding the road to…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOldtown hides a vanished castle in Crannagh, County Kilkenny, preserved only through John Grace and the land he held…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilmacar Castle vanished around 1780 when its roof collapsed on a St. Martin's night, killing the herd and family…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastlekelly takes its name from Caisleán Uí Cheallaigh, a castle whose stones have vanished but whose shadow still…
Site of Brittas CastleCastle — unclassifiedIn 1640 Henry Archer owned a ruined stone house in Cappagh, perhaps the lost Brittas Castle mentioned by Carrigan in…
Sheepstown Castle (site of)Archaeological placeSheepstown Castle (site of) marks a lost castle in County Kilkenny, Ireland. The ground keeps the shape of halls, yards…
Shanganny CastleArchaeological placeShanganny Castle survives only as a buried suggestion in County Kilkenny, not a standing wall or named chamber. The…
Rogerstown Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRogerstown Castle stands ruined in County Kilkenny, a tower house reduced to ghosts rather than chambers. Its walls may…
Rochestown Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedRochestown Castle (Site of), Rochestown (iverk By.) stands as a castle in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Its exact history…
Prior's TowerCastlePrior's Tower stands in County Kilkenny, a castle shaped by the priors who once commanded the land. Its stones may have…
Old Court (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedOldcourt stands in County Kilkenny as a vanished castle, its walls and chambers lost to time or deliberate forgetting.…
Not indciatedCastle — unclassifiedBallyroe is a castle and mill, recorded in 1656 on a raised platform beside a diverted stream. Thomas Shortall held the…
Neigham CastleCastle — tower houseNeigham Castle is a ruined rectangular tower house in County Kilkenny, built by Sir James Butler before his death in…
Mountgarret Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedMountgarret Castle belonged to the Butler Mountgarret family and once held the western crest above the Nore valley, but…
Mount Juliet HouseCastleMount Juliet House stands as a castle in County Kilkenny, its walls holding the quiet weight of centuries rather than…
Moonhall Castle (ruins)CastleMoonhall Castle stands in ruin across County Kilkenny, its walls reduced to fragments that mark a forgotten defensive…
MoatCastle — motteLismateige moat stands in County Kilkenny, a castle mound built to tower above the surrounding land. Whether it guarded…
Moat Castle (site of)Archaeological placeMoat Castle (site of) still holds its shape in County Kilkenny, though the castle itself has vanished. The ground may…
Lord Galmoys Catle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedLord Galmoys Castle stood in ruins beside a small Kilkenny field when first mapped in 1839, but even its memory had…
Lacken Castle (site of)Archaeological placeLacken Castle (site of) still lies hidden beneath County Kilkenny soil, waiting for a shovel or a storm to reveal…
Killahy Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedKillahy Castle belonged to the Graces and stood half a mile south of the church before human hubris and time reduced it…
Kilbline CastleCastle — tower houseKilbline Castle is a late 16th-century four-storey tower house in County Kilkenny where the hall still bears a carved…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Threecastles Demesne is a castle motte on a Kilkenny ridge above the River Nore, marking a fording point and…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Sandfordscourt is a bawn in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where Cantwell’s Castle still stands at the west angle…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkIndicated, Purcellsinch is a castle ringwork at the south end of a ridge in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Its round…
IndicatedBawnNeigham is a water-locked castle bawn in County Kilkenny, built by Sir James Butler before his death in 1487. Its moat…
IndicatedCastle — motteKillamery was a real town in the medieval county of Kilkenny, and its castle still stands as a broad earthen mound at…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseKilferagh Castle stood on a ridge above the River Nore flood plain, its stone walls later swallowed by Kilfera House…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkIndicated, Glenmagoo OR Firoda Lower is a ringwork castle on the SW end of a hill in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Its oval…
IndicatedBawnFoulkscourt bawn stands on a raised platform above the River Goul, its eastern wall still rising with a two-storey…
IndicatedBawnIndicated occupies a broad boggy terrace above the River Coon gorge, preserving a forty-five-yard square bawn where a…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedClintstown Castle belonged to the Mountgarrets and stood in a green field above the River Nore until its ruins were…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Clara Upper is a small rectangular bawn attached to the north front of Clara Castle in County Kilkenny.…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkIndicated, Castletown (galmoy By.) was a ringwork castle on a hill above Castletown, its circular platform still rising…
IndicatedBawnCastle Eve is a ruined bawn on a Kilkenny ridge, its limestone walls still standing tall enough to walk beside. A deep…
IndicatedCastle — ringworkIndicated is a substantial Anglo-Norman ringwork set into a west-facing hill slope in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Its…
IndicatedBawnOn a slight break of a NE-facing slope, in pasture. There are good views in all directions, except upslope to the S. A…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Balleen Little is a circular bawn on a hill terrace in County Kilkenny, built with straight wall lengths and…
HouseHouse — fortified houseThomastown still holds a fortified house, though its walls have surrendered much of their shape to time. The stones may…
HouseHouse — fortified houseInistioge is named for a fortified house that still stands, though the name has stretched into a town and the house has…
Graul Burkes Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedGraul Burkes Castle vanished from Gaulstown, leaving behind a hollow where stone once stood. Its absence is a wound in…
Granny CastleCastle — tower houseGranny Castle stands on the north bank of the River Suir, a five-storey limestone tower built perhaps around 1500 for…
Grace's Old CastleCastleGrace's Old Castle stands on Parliament Street in Kilkenny, where William le Gras built a stronghold before 1210 and…