Castles and forts in County Longford
The Discover Alone map has 123 castles and forts in County Longford, 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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RuinsCastle — unclassifiedLissard Castle vanished before the twentieth century, leaving only a low rise and a memory of ivy. Coad wrote in 1832…
Rathcline CastleHouse — fortified houseMud and fire took Rathcline in the wars of King James, leaving behind a tall angle tower and broken walls that still…
Rathcline CastleBawnRathcline Castle is a surviving square bawn in County Longford where Thomas Dutton built a fortified house in the early…
Not locatedCastle — unclassifiedNo visible castle exists at Tibber, yet the Down Survey marked one in 1656. That absence is the shape of the place: a…
Mornin Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMornin Castle stands as a ruined tower house on a rocky outcrop in County Longford, offering unbroken views across the…
MoatawardCastle — motte and baileyMoataward is a motte and bailey castle in County Longford where a steep mound still rises above pasture at the end of a…
Moat of GranardCastle — motte and baileyGranard's moat field holds a nine-metre mound cut into living rock, built by Richard de Tuit in 1199 to strangle…
MoatCastle — motteNo castle wall, no lord's hall, no distant army: a man or family stacked earth and stone into a small round hill, then…
Moat & CastleCastle — motte and baileyMoatfarrell stands at the NE end of a Longford ridge, its steep oval motte rising nine metres above a deep rock-cut…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Moatfarrell is a long field wall in County Longford with two blunt towers at either end, possibly the last…
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Ballinamore is a large rectangular bawn in County Longford, enclosing a fortified house within its southern…
Druming Ho. (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedDruming Ho stood in County Longford as a long rectangular house with a tall central tower, possibly a medieval castle…
DoonphilipCastle — motteDoonphilip rises seven metres above Parkplace as a steep oval mound, its flat top broad enough for a small hall or a…
Coolamber CastleHouse — fortified houseCoolamber Castle stands within a possible early medieval ringwork later reused as a bawn, its four-storey tower and…
CastleforbesCastleCastleforbes rises from ivy and limestone as a Gothic castle in County Longford, mixing seventeenth-century walls with…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedDonclone castle held James I's 1619 grant for William Mc Brian Murtagh, tying royal favour to a particular Longford…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedWilliam Ó Fearghail built the castle in 1405, but English forces took it in 1420 and left it behind. He destroyed his…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Tully stood on a low pasture rise where Faghne O’Farrell resided in 1570, overlooking the living land in every…
CastleBawnCastle Rosduff is a 17th-century rectangular bawn in County Longford, built of uncoursed rubble and defended by…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle in Bracklon is a large oval ringwork on a SW-facing pasture slope, its fragmentary earth and stone bank still…
CastleBawnCastle Portanure is a ruined rectangular bawn in County Longford, possibly dating to the late 16th or early 17th…
CastleCastle — motteScreeboge Castle is a twenty-metre earthen mound on a Longford ridge, topped by a square hole where wall footings still…
CastleCastle — motteCastle, motte in Newtownbond stands at the north end of a narrow ridge, lifting a flat oval platform above wet…
CastleCastle — motteCastle is a steep circular mound of earth and stone in Moatavally, County Longford, built high enough to command the…
CastleCastle — motteCastlecore rises as a steep oval mound above open pasture, holding a view that stretches in every direction toward the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastleforbes Demesne stands on low ground beside Lough Forbes, still marked by a wide stone-and-earth mound that may…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Bawn was one of seven O’Farrell strongholds in Annaly, hidden inside a rath rather than set beside it. The…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Ballyclare stands as a broken rectangular tower in low pasture, its thick limestone walls still rising three…
CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleCastle is an Anglo-Norman masonry castle in Lissardowlan, built by John O’Ferrall, Lord of Annaly, around 1377. It…
Caltragh CastleCastle — unclassifiedCaltragh Castle stood twenty metres long on a low pasture rise in County Longford before men levelled it into nothing.…
Bawn in TirlickeenBawnBawn in Tirlickeen is a subrectangular enclosure in County Longford where John Farrell and others took up a castle and…
Bawn in LissardowlanBawnMud and fire erased the bawn at Lissardowlan, yet it remained large enough to hold a town and tempt invading armies.…
Bawn in CurrycahillBawnDown Survey cartographers drew a square bawn around a fortified house in Currycahill during 1655-6, yet no wall or…
Bawn in CastlereaBawnBawn in Castlerea is a rectangular medieval enclosure in County Longford, defined today by low field walls and a hidden…
Bawn in Castleforbes DemesneBawnCastleforbes Demesne holds a bawn where defenders once shot rebels through broken windows while dying of thirst inside.…
Bawn in AbbeycartronBawnHalf a mile south of the courthouse stands a forgotten bawn, its walls buried under centuries of forgetting. In 1641…
Bawn Castle & NunneryHouse — fortified houseRobert O’Farroll received Bawn in 1621, creating a manor where a fortified house later rose from limestone rubble. The…
Barry CastleCastle — unclassifiedBarry Castle stood on the highest ridge point, watching the countryside from a possible moated site. Cathal son of…
Ballymulvey Ho.Castle — unclassifiedBallymulvey Ho. stands on the north bank of the Inny River, one kilometre east of Ballymahon, where a castle in good…
Bakers FortCastle — ringworkBakers Fort is a raised circular platform in marshy ground beside Granard, likely an Anglo-Norman manor rather than an…
Elfeet CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleElfeet Castle is an Anglo-Norman masonry castle in County Longford, Ireland. It stands on a SW-facing slope overlooking…
Bawn in BallyknockBawnBallyknock preserves a circular bawn thirty-nine metres across where a tower house once stood. Its stone foundations…
Site of Castle NugentCastle — unclassifiedCastle Nugent stood on a natural rise above County Longford, watching every road and field until Thomas Nugent claimed…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Annagh kept the Owancharra bank in Abbeyshrule barony during the Down Survey of 1655-6, yet no exact spot has…
Ardagh DemesneFortArdagh Demesne holds a forgotten ringfort where conifers now hide a low earthen scar. The southern bank still rises…
Moat & FortCastle — motte and baileyLissard is an absent castle, erased by ploughs and years. The fordet and bailey once rose above the pasture, but no…- Rathcline CastleRuinsRathcline Castle in County Longford is a ruined square bawn where a medieval tower house and an early 17th century…
- Moat, RampartCastle — motte and baileyMoat, Rampart, Lissardowlan is a motte and bailey castle in County Longford, built in the 1190s during the Anglo-Norman…
- Moat & CastleCastle — unclassifiedMoatfarrell stands upon a grassy motte in County Longford, where a collapsed stone building may still mark an O’Farrell…
- IndicatedBawnIndicated, Tully (granard By.) is a vanished bawn beside an unclassified castle in County Longford, Ireland. Its…
- IndicatedCastle — tower houseRathcline is a ruined tower house on a slight rise above Lough Ree in County Longford, traditionally held by the…
- IndicatedCastle — tower houseKnockahaw is a Georgian house in County Longford built around the remains of an older tower house. It served as a…
- HouseHouse — fortified houseHouse, fortified house in Tirlickeen stands in elevated pasture with good views in all directions. In 1620 Connell…
- HouseHouse — fortified housePortanure house stood on a gentle slope above Lough Ree in the late 16th century, a long rectangular fortress with…
- HouseHouse — fortified houseCurrycahill held a large two-storey fortified house inside a square bawn, visible on the 1655-6 Down Survey but erased…
- HouseHouse — fortified houseAbbeycartron, County Longford. A fortified house built around 1627 by Lord Aungier, possibly incorporating an older…
- Elfeet CastleCastle — tower houseElfeet Castle stands in County Longford as a rough limestone tower house built around the southeast angle of an older…
- CastlereaCastle — tower houseCastlerea rises five storeys above poorly drained pasture, its thick limestone walls built to watch the western and…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedNo visible castle remains in Tennalick, though a strong castle was still remembered when Lewis wrote in 1837. The…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedTemplemichael castle is a phantom on Church land, drawn on the Down Survey map but never found despite archaeologists…