Castles and forts in County Leitrim
The Discover Alone map has 45 castles and forts in County Leitrim, Ireland. Below are the 45 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Sit of Breifny CastleCastle — tower houseSit of Breifny Castle is a ruined tower house in the centre of Leitrim village, thirty metres from the canalised stream…
PortCastle — unclassifiedPort Castle guarded the eastern bank where the Shannon bends west around hidden rock. Taylor and Skinner still called…
OratoryCastle — tower houseFarnaght is a tower house in County Leitrim, not the oratory that a mistaken map once named. Bryan Reynolds owned the…
Old HallCastle — hall-houseOld Hall stands on a high bluff above the Bonet River gorge, holding the shape of a single-storey limestone box that…
Manorhamilton CastleCastleManorhamilton Castle rose in 1634 as one of six fortified seats for Sir Frederick Hamilton, a Scottish planter who held…
Lough Rynn HouseCastleLough Rynn House is a substantial Tudor Revival country house built in 1832 within a large Leitrim estate that still…
Harrisons CastleHouse — fortified houseWalter Harrison received 1500 acres at Dunbrandon in 1621, building a fortified corner tower beside the narrowest loop…
Doonbran Isd.BawnDoonbran Isd., Stonepark is a grassy oval trapped inside a dead river loop on the Bonet floodplain. Harrison's castle…
CastleforeCastle — tower houseCastlefore is the vanished tower house of the O'Duignan bards, where blood was spilled in 1409 and a female servant…
CastlecarraCastle — unclassifiedCastlecarra, meaning the castle of the rock, is named for a house demolished in the 1960s rather than a surviving…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Carr stands in County Leitrim, but a forgotten predecessor may still bury itself near Glencar Lough. Connellan…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle stood as a tower house beside the southern shore of Lough Melvin before its eastern wall became the western…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Rinn is a battered tower house beside Lough Rinn, where fourteen men died in a MacRaighnaill attack in 1473. Its…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle, ringwork in Woodford Demesne: a grass-covered D-shaped enclosure in mixed woodland, its earthen bank and…
CastleCastle — tower houseDubhrath, the Black Rath, was a four-storey tower built by Brian O'Rourke in 1582, jutting twenty metres into Lough…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Kilmore stands on the north shore of Lough Gill, where O’Rourke’s Newtown once lived and Brain na Murtha…
Castle JohnCastleCastle John stands beside Lough Scur in County Leitrim, joining three crannogs and a causeway as one of the lake’s…
CastleCastle — tower houseCorragoly holds a broken limestone vault, barely two metres high, buried beneath grass and memory. It may have stood as…
Castle CarCastleCastle Car anchors the O’Rourke identity in Glencar Valley, where a tower house rose from a rock outcrop beside a…
Bawn in DuncarbryBawnDuncarbry is a bawn and probable tower house belonging to the McClancy lineage, preserved as a grass-covered platform…
Bawn in Cherry IslandBawnCherry Island in County Leitrim holds a D-shaped bawn where a thin wall still marks the edge of a forgotten castle. A…
BatteryBawnCrane Island holds a collapsed mortared bawn and a circular tower with surviving gun-loops, built during the 1641…
Forde's CastleCastleForde's Castle is a castle in County Leitrim, Ireland. Perhaps the MacConsnavas lived there before Forde took the name.…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle, Lough Melvin is a McClancy tower house on a crannóg, where Captain de Cuellar built a gun-loop wall after…
indicatedBawnIndicated, Mohill is a bawn in County Leitrim, Ireland. Henry Crofton lived there before dying in 1643. His family…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Drumahaire is a bawn in County Leitrim, Ireland. The completed information above is empty, so the place must…- Old CastleHouse — fortified houseOld Castle stands on a high bluff above the twisting River Bonet, built in 1628 for William Villiers under a grant from…
- IndicatedBawnIndicated, Kilmore (drumahaire By., Sramore Ed) is a five-sided bawn at Parke's Castle in County Leitrim, Ireland, with…
- IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Corry is a ruined tower house on Corry Point, County Leitrim, built by McConsava after O'Donnell burnt his…
- IndicatedBawnClooneen bawn stands on a slight rise above the Owenbeg, its western wall still reaching three floors while the rest…
- Duncarbry Castle (site of)Archaeological placeDuncarbry Castle (site of) still lies hidden in County Leitrim, waiting for boots and patience rather than maps. The…
- Duncarbry CastleCastle — tower houseDuncarbry Castle is a grass-covered platform on a prominent rise in County Leitrim, built by the McClancys to guard the…
- Dooroy CastleRuinsHalf-buried in bramble and moss on a narrow tongue of land pushed into Lough Gill, Dooroy Castle keeps only one…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedNoah O’Duigenan likely controlled the land beside the triangular lake where the castle stood, though the exact stones…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCarrickmakeegan, a castle on the southwest shore of Gardice Lough, left no stones behind by the mid-twentieth century.…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedIn 1656, a castle at Brada appeared on the Down Survey map of County Leitrim, yet no other reference exists for…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedAugarann Castle vanished in 1801 when its stones were taken to build the Carrigallen to Mohill road, yet the castle…
- CastleHouse — fortified houseCaptain Robert Parke dismantled the O'Rourke tower house in 1628 and rebuilt its stones into a three-storey fortress…
- Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedCherry Island, a heart-shaped lough island in County Leitrim, still holds the shadow of a castle lost to water and…
- CastleHouse — fortified houseCastle Gowly stands roofless on a rocky promontory beside Lough Scur, its ivy-strangled walls holding gun-loops and a…
- CastleHouse — fortified houseClooneen Castle rose on a slight rise above the Owenbeg River, its asymmetric corner towers and narrow gun-loops built…
- Castke CarCastle — tower houseCastke Car stands on a shallow rock shelf in Glencar valley, where O'Rourke stone still marks the place first lost to…
- Aughry CastleHouse — fortified houseAughry Castle was a fortified house built by the Nesbitt family around 1640 on a gentle slope beside Lough Bofin.…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedOne cairn still stands on Rabbit Island in Lough Bofin. It may be all that remains of the castle Mac Raghnal once kept…
- Woodford CastleCastleWoodford Castle stands in County Leitrim, a name dropped into the green like a stone into water. Whether it kept…