Castles and forts in County Limerick
The Discover Alone map has 499 castles and forts in County Limerick, 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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TurretCastle — unclassifiedMorgans Castle stood on the southern Shannon shore when Sir John of Desmond held its ruinous stones in 1587, long…
Treada Na Ríogh (The Moat), hachuredCastle — motteTreada Na Ríogh is a triple-banked royal fort on a Limerick hilltop, its central mound still rising ten metres above…
Tower HillCastle — unclassifiedTuogh Castle stood in repair beside a bawen, orchard and two mill seats when Tadhg O'Brien held the land, while robbers…
Tooreen Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseTooreen Castle stood as a tower house on level Limerick ground, passing from Riordan to Haly and Clayton before ruin…
Tomdeely CastleCastleTomdeely Castle stands in County Limerick, a castle marked on an open map but denied the chance to speak its own name.…
Templars Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleTemplars Castle stands in ruin on the north bank of the Arra river, its rectangular bawn and corner towers reduced to…
(Site of) Tullabracky CastleCastle — unclassifiedTullabracky Castle vanished around 1810 when John Malony levelled the stones to build his farm, yet fragments still…
(Site of) Nicker CastleCastle — unclassifiedQuarries cut through Nicker Castle after 1700, erasing the fortress that once stood on the east-facing slope of…
Site of Millmount Castle, Castle FieldCastle — unclassifiedMillmount Castle stood in Gotoon beside the River Loobagh, guarding two grist-mills and a tucking-mill until ruin…
(Site of) Garryellen CastleCastle — unclassifiedGarryellen Castle stood eighteen metres square inside a much larger court wall before human patience erased it from the…
Site of Dungrot CastleCastle — unclassifiedKnockanebrack holds the last visible fragment of Dungrot Castle, a castle and manor that stretched across four and a…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedTankardstown Castle vanished before the nineteenth century, leaving no stone behind despite appearing on…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedLeagane Castle vanished into a Limerick pasture, leaving only a circular earthwork and a suspicious heap of stones…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilcosgrave Castle disappeared beneath a rectangular house built by the Langford family, yet its foundations still lie…
Site of Castle CooteBawnCastle Coote, which once stood in the shadow of Ash Hill Towers, has vanished entirely from the landscape. Maps drawn…
(Site of) Castle ClugginCastle — unclassifiedCastle Cluggin vanished into a shallow pasture hollow, leaving only a quarried outcrop and a ghost name behind. It may…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedModern house located on site of Cloghatacka (Cloch an tSeaca) Castle which was depicted as a tower house type building…
(Site of) CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloghaderreen castle vanished completely, its limestone walls stripped and scattered before 1840, leaving only a faint…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastleroberts stood south of the River Maigue from 1290 until its stones were torn out to build a local bridge. It…
Site of Castle, Castle FieldCastle — unclassifiedClay castle, vanished before the surveyors arrived, its fields still named for the shape it left behind. Edmund…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallynacourty Castle stood as the ancient court of Dermochi from 1185 until Sir Edward Fitz Harris owned a broken butt…
Site of Bulgaden HallCastle — unclassifiedBulgaden Hall rose in County Limerick as a magnificent mansion for John Evans, brother to the first Lord Carbery…
Site of Ballyneety CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallyneety Castle vanished from its rock before Patrick Sarsfield rode past the ruin in 1690, leaving only a clean…
Shanpallas CastleCastleShanpallas Castle, formerly Kenry Castle, is the ancient palisade that still gives Pallaskenry its name. It stood as a…
Shanid Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleShanid Castle stands as a circular Anglo-Norman keep on a high mound in County Limerick, holding a stone arc that rises…
Shanid CastleCastleShanid Castle is a polygonal Anglo-Norman stronghold dated to 1230 circa, built on a hill near Shanagolden for Thomas…Ryves CastleCastle — unclassifiedRyves Castle in County Limerick is a doubtful site where Castle Jane may have risen above the old Ballyscaddan castle…
Round Tower (Site of)Castle — tower houseDown Survey drawings from 1657 show a tower joined to the west end of St Patrick's Church in Singland, but the tower…
Rockstown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseBallynacarrig Castle still stands as a square tower on a limestone rock in Rockstown, having passed from Bourke to…
Robertstown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseRobertstown Castle stood at the tip of a narrow spit where the Robertstown river meets the sea, holding the Desmond…
RathardCastle — ringworkRathard is a circular stone and earth castle perched on a 157m ridge in County Limerick, built to watch the land below.…
Purt CastleCastlePurt Castle stands as a ruined Geraldine tower house near Abbeyfeale, built in the 15th century to command the River…
Partially indicatedBawnFanningstown Castle is a ruined bawn where a water-filled moat still cuts through reclaimed pasture, its western edge…
Pallas MoatCastle — mottePallas Moat in Cloghaderreen rises eight metres above a narrow ditch, presenting a broad rectangular plateau that…
OutlinedBawnRathcannon Castle stands on a bold rocky ridge in County Limerick, where a square tower and ruined bawn mark the former…
OutlinedCastle — tower houseOutlined is a ruined five-storey tower house on King's Island in Limerick City, built around 1500 and later known as…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedCaherconlish once held four castles, but time and perhaps human greed erased them until only a chimney site remains…
OultinedBawnOultined is a Rawleystown bawn in County Limerick where a fortified house stood inside a large angled courtyard. The…
Oola Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseOola Castle is a late 16th-century O'Brien tower house on Oolahills East, built with circular bartizans and a spiral…
New CastleCastleNew Castle is a castle in County Limerick, Ireland. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them…
Mote - HachuredCastle — motteKilfrush is a circular flat-topped motte in County Limerick, Ireland, standing four metres above a surrounding fosse…
Milltown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMilltown Castle was an L-shaped tower house inside a cashel on a limestone crag in County Limerick. It has been reduced…
Meelick Ho.House — fortified houseMeelick Ho., Corcamore is a fortified house hidden inside the working farmyard of Meelick House, County Limerick. In…
Mayne Ho.Castle — unclassifiedMayne Castle stood in County Limerick as a military position and reputed templary site, losing its roof and purpose…
Longford Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedLongford Castle stood twenty feet high beside a river when the Down Survey mapped it in 1657, yet no human hand has…
Loghill HoCastle — unclassifiedLoghill Castle stood on the east side of the inlet until Mr Hewson broke it into a garden wall, erasing its shape but…
Lissamota CastleCastleSixty feet of unbroken stone still pierce the Limerick sky, preserving a narrow chamber where angry men rained lead…
Lismakeery Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseLismakeery Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Limerick, marked on a 17th century map and listed in the…
Lickadoon Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMaurice de Rupefort held Leakdon in 1336, marking the castle as a bishopric anchor before Bermingham, Hurley and Roche…
Knockainy Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKnockainy Castle stands as a ruined tower house in County Limerick, built around 1500 by Matthew O'Grady for the Earl…
Kings CastleCastle — tower houseKing's Castle in Kilmallock still spans St John's Street like a stubborn gate, its limestone walls and pointed arch…
Kilmacow Ho.BawnKilmacow Ho. is a large bawn on the north slope of Knockfeerina where a nearly levelled tower still holds the ghost of…
Kilfinny CastleCastleKilfinny Castle is a ruined tower house in County Limerick, Ireland, where a 13th-century vaulted chamber still stands…
Kilduff Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKilduff Castle stands as a five-story tower house from the reign of James I, its thick west and south walls still…
Kilduff CastleCastleKilduff Castle is a five-storey tower house in County Limerick, likely built during the reign of James I for the…
Kilbeheny Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKilbeheny Castle stood as a five-storey tower house on Castlequarter, its walls reaching sixty feet high before the…
Kilballyowen HouseCastle — unclassifiedKilballyowen House, which stood in County Limerick until its demolition in the late 1960s, swallowed an older O'Grady…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedMountblakeney Castle belonged to the Blakeneys and measured roughly twenty-four by twenty-two feet before its south…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedIndicated, Garranbane preserves a sloping bawn wall that once guarded Cappercullen Castle above a steep river valley.…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Castletown is an inverted pudding-bowl shaped motte with a flat top and overgrown sides, sitting in the…