Castles and forts in County Louth
The Discover Alone map has 131 castles and forts in County Louth, 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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TumulusCastle — motte and baileyLurgankeel stood as a motte and bailey castle on high ground beside the River Kilcurry in County Louth, occupying about…
Thomastown CastleCastle — tower houseThomastown Castle is a three-storey tower house in County Louth, Ireland, now hidden inside a large Georgian house…
The MountCastle — motte and baileyThe Mount at Crowmartin is a flat-topped motte and bailey castle on a ridge above swampy land in County Louth. Its…
The LissCastle — motteThe Liss was a small fort and castle motte a quarter mile NE of Ardee in low-lying County Louth ground. Tempest wrote…
Termonfeckin CastleCastleTermonfeckin Castle is a sturdy three-storey tower house in County Louth, built during the fifteenth or sixteenth…
Taaffe's CastleCastleTaaffe's Castle rose in Carlingford as a four-storey tower for merchant warriors, guarding harbor trade with…
Site of Mullanstown CastleCastle — unclassifiedMullanstown Castle vanished into a quarry pit, erasing the roofless gabled house drawn on the 1656-8 Down Survey and…
Roodstown CastleCastle — tower houseRoodstown Castle stands four storeys high in County Louth, its uncoursed rubble and greywacke angles projecting like…
Roodstown CastleCastleRoodstown Castle is a four-storey tower house built in the fifteenth century to watch the road between Ardee and the…
Rocjardstown CastleCastle — tower houseRocjardstown Castle is a square tower house with round corner turrets, later absorbed into a mid-nineteenth-century…
Roche CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleRoche Castle stands on a steep rock outcrop in County Louth, where Lady Rohesia de Verdun is said to have built in…
Roche CastleCastleRoche Castle is a ruined limestone castle on a rocky outcrop in County Louth, Ireland, built for Lady Rohesia de Verdun…
RathneestinCastle — tower houseRathneestin is a Castle Field in County Louth where Niselrath Castle stood before disappearing beneath grass and…
Raskeagh FortCastle — motte and baileyMuddy water filled the double ditch and soaked the boots of everyone entering Raskeagh Fort, where a rectangular hall…
Not idicatatedCastle — unclassifiedNot idicatated, Paughanstown (ardee By; Kildemmock Par.) is a castle in Kildemmock parish, County Louth, recorded…
MountCastle — motte and baileyHaynestown Castle stands twenty-one metres south of Mount Haynestown, a motte and bailey on a small ridge in County…
Mount Bagnell FoerCastle — motte and baileyMountbagnall stood as a steep-sided motte and high bailey above the Castletown River until quarrying removed most of it…
Mount AshCastle — motteMount Ash is a circular castle mound in County Louth, Ireland, with a wide fosse and outer bank. Its centre has been…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat is a motte and bailey castle on the south bank of the River Glyde near Mapastown, where a flat-topped mound still…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat, Louth Hall is a motte and bailey castle on a low ridge beside the River Glyde in County Louth. Its circular mound…
MoatCastle — motteMoat in Artoney, County Louth, is a large castle mound standing eighty-five centimetres above its wide U-shaped ditch.…
Magdalene TowerCastleMagdalene Tower is the surviving belfry of a Dominican friary founded near Drogheda in 1224, its stone rebuilt during…
Louth HallCastle — tower houseLouth Hall is a tower house in County Louth, Ireland, whose bones are still visible inside a later castellated mansion.…
Lagan castleCastle — tower houseLagan castle stood as a possible tower house occupied by Thomas Fleming in 1561 before Hugh O’Neill and Richard…
King Johns Castle in ruinsCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleKing Johns Castle stands in ruins above Carlingford Lough, its D-shaped limestone walls built over an older underground…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Dunleer is a low flat-topped castle mound on a high terrace above the White River in County Louth. It has no…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseClonmore castle reduced to its northwest angle tower, three storeys of rough limestone and greywacke, still juts west…
GreenmountCastle — motte and baileyGreenmount is a motte and bailey castle on a high ridge in County Louth, Ireland. Its oval mound and D-shaped bailey…
Faughart MoundCastle — motteFaughart Upper is an eight-metre castle mound on Faughart Hill, ringed by a deep fosse and topped with a mortared stone…
Dunmahon CastleCastle — tower houseDunmahon Castle stands as a four-storey tower house in County Louth, built of rough limestone and greywacke rubble…
Dunmahon CastleCastleDunmahon Castle rises four storeys above County Louth, its rough limestone and greywacke walls still bearing the murder…
Dun DealganCastle — motte and baileyWright recorded a large eastern bailey in 1758, but a modern waterworks destroyed most of it; only a faint scarp still…
Drummond TowerCastleDrummond Tower stands in County Louth, a castle shape still visible where human hands first forced stone to resist the…
Drumcashel FortCastle — motteDrumcashel Fort is a circular motte standing six to eight metres high on a broad ridge west of Drumcashel House in…
Dawsons MoatCastle — motte and baileyMottos and myths collide at Dawsonsdemesne, where a flat-topped mound rises eleven metres above the River Dee to guard…Darver CastleCastleDarver Castle is a four-storey stone fortress in County Louth that has remained occupied since the 12th century, when…
Cooley CastleCastle — tower houseCooley Castle rose in County Louth when James Dowdall built it around 1543, but men forgot its shape before the…
Castletown MotteArchaeological placeByrne's Folly still stands on the old mound where Patrick Byrne built his pirate castle in 1780. Below his stones lies…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Field at Windmill, Ferrard barony, held a castle in local memory though no map or surviving wall has ever…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedBolton's Castle vanished from Tullydonnell hill before Taylor and Skinner drew ruins in 1777, leaving behind an…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Reaghstown stands behind a missing name, a house with a chimney drawn in 1656 and a castle…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedTaylor and Skinner's 1777 map placed a castle in Newrath, yet the 1778 edition erased it without warning. That sudden…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Edmondstown, County Louth, has vanished except for a flat-topped hillock and a wide drystone wall. Nearby…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCarrick Philip still stands 300m NE of the church, though no wall or trench remains visible. Local tradition calls it a…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Castletown (dundalk Upper By.) stands as a ghost in County Louth, marked only on a 1655 map…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle is a sub-rectangular mound in Barronstown, County Louth, measuring 26 metres east-west and 15 metres…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Townparks stands in County Louth as a four-storey limestone tower house, still occupied after modern changes.…
CastleCastle — tower houseHatch's Castle in County Louth is a four-storey tower house built of uncoursed limestone rubble and greywacke, but…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Townparks is a three-storey limestone tower outside Ardee that has forgotten its defensive purpose and become a…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle is a tower house in Townparks, County Louth, Ireland. It still stands as a rough marker of the area rather than…CastleCastle — tower houseCastle, tower house in Liberties OF Carlingford stands as a basement chamber beneath a later Watch Tower, preserving a…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle, tower house in Liberties OF Carlingford is a three-storey limestone residence from the 16th century, not a mint…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle stood in low ground beside the Ballymascanlan River during the late medieval period, its thick granite walls…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle, tower house in Allardstown (louth By) stands in County Louth, Ireland. The Down Survey barony map marked a…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Termonfeckin rises on a low Louth ridge as a three-storey tower house built from rough limestone and greywacke…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Stephenstown rises through ivy in low Louth countryside, its rough limestone and greywacke chambers still…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Smarmore rises three storeys high in County Louth, its opposing western and eastern towers projecting like…
Castle (Site of)Castle — tower houseCastle (Site of) in Termonfeckin stood on the south bank of the river, west of the bridge, with two angle-towers and a…
Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedCastlebellingham is the hidden heart of a lost castle, buried beneath the mansion grounds where faint foundations still…
Castle RuinsCastle — tower houseGlaspistol Castle stands in County Louth as a three-storey tower house of limestone and greywacke, its angle towers…