Castles and forts in County Mayo
The Discover Alone map has 271 castles and forts in County Mayo, 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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Tower; Proposed site of Ross AbbeyCastle — unclassifiedTower; Proposed site of Ross Abbey stands in County Mayo, Ireland, marked as an unclassified castle rather than a…
Site of Redmond Barretts CastleCastle — unclassifiedRedmond Barretts Castle stands in County Mayo, Ireland, though no public record explains when it was built, who lived…
Site of Myles Barretts CastleCastle — unclassifiedThe Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedRinnahulty Castle stands in County Mayo, Ireland, though its exact history and structure remain unrecorded. The site…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDún Ceartáin Nó Gleann An Ghad marks a lost castle in County Mayo, perhaps built to watch a narrow valley or protect a…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCill Ghallagáin is an unclassified castle site in County Mayo, Ireland. Its exact history and purpose remain unknown…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOne cannot stop thinking about the hidden castle at Castletown, though the official file remains empty. The absence is…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastlehill stood on a wet Mayo slope above Blacksod Bay before fire took it, leaving only a rectangular shadow in the…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedAn Tinbhear, which means the tomb, marks a castle site in County Mayo where stone and memory still tangle. The name…
Site of Bawn CastleCastle — unclassifiedBawn Castle stands inside Westport Demesne, County Mayo, a castle so unclassified it resists easy description. The land…
Shrule Castle in ruinsCastle — hall-houseShrule Castle stands as a ruined hall-house in County Mayo, Ireland. Its broken walls mark a forgotten resident life…
Shrule CastleCastleShrule Castle rose beside the Black River around 1238 when Richard Mor de Burgh built a defensive tower for Connacht.…
Shonagawna Castle in RuinsCastle — unclassifiedShonagawna Castle stands in ruins within Aghaward, County Mayo, preserving the ghost of a fortified home rather than a…
Rockfleet Castle in RuinsCastle — tower houseRockfleet Castle stands on limestone at the mouth of a small river in Rockfleet Bay, its base battered by tide and its…
Rathroe CastleCastleRathroe Castle is a roofless limestone tower in County Mayo, likely built during the fifteenth or sixteenth century for…
RathmoreCastle — motteRathmore is a flat-topped earthen castle buried under impenetrable blackthorn in County Mayo. It stands twenty-five…
Rath Castle in ruinsCastle — tower houseRath Castle stands ruined in County Mayo, Ireland, its tower house reduced to a shadow where people once lived. The…
O'Malley's CastleCastleO'Malley's Castle stands in County Mayo, a castle shaped by the kind of life that still moves through old stone. The…
Moyne Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedMoyne Castle stands in ruins at Moyne, County Mayo, a forgotten stone anchor in the western landscape. Its unclassified…
Moyne CastleCastleMoyne Castle is a ruined fifteenth-century tower house on the eastern bank of the Black River in County Mayo. It stands…
Moyhenna Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedThe Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic…
Mocorha CastleCastleMocorha Castle is a ruined tower house in County Mayo, Ireland. Its western wall still holds a splayed window set…
Luffertaun Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedLuffertaun Castle stands in ruins within County Mayo, Ireland. Its walls have surrendered to time and weather, leaving…
Loughmask Castle in ruinsCastle — tower houseKnocknamucklagh Castle stands in a ordinary farmyard on the east shore of Lough Mask, a deBurgo tower from 1480 that…
Loughmask CastleCastleLoughmask Castle rose beside Lough Mask around 1480 as a de Burgo tower house, then changed twice during the early…
Kinturk CastleCastleKinturk Castle in County Mayo is a late medieval Irish tower house, built during the 15th or 16th century as a…
Kinlough CastleCastleKinlough Castle is a four-storey tower house beside the Black River where Sir John MacOliver Burke added corner…
Kildavnet CastleCastle — tower houseKildavnet Castle stands on Achill bedrock as a four-storey tower built in the late 15th century, predating the famous…
Inishcoe Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedInishcoe Castle in ruins stands in County Mayo, Ireland. The ruined castle may have housed a family, guarded a coast…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Moat (costello By.) is a vast oval earthwork in County Mayo, Ireland, rising six to seven metres above the….jpg)
IndicatedBawnIndicated, Liskilleen preserves a ruined castle inside a rectangular bawn measuring forty-three by sixty-four metres.…
IndicatedHouse — fortified houseIsland House stands roofless on the shore of Island lake, its T-shaped limestone walls marking a fortified residence…
IndicatedCastle — motteCarrowcastle stands as a damaged motte on a Mayo ridge, its southern third torn away by quarrying yet still commanding…
IndicatedCastle — motteBohola is a castle motte in County Mayo, Ireland, where a broad ramp once invited travelers across its eastern edge…
IndicatedBawnBallyhowly is a bawn in County Mayo. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland has not yet uploaded its details, leaving the…
Granuaile's CastleCastleGranuaile's Castle is a twelve-metre tower house on Clare Island, built in the 16th century by the Ó Máille and…
Enaghmore Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedEnaghmore Castle stands in ruins across County Mayo, its stones stripped of roof and purpose but still holding the…
Doonamona CastleCastleDoonamona Castle stands in County Mayo, preserving the sharp edge of local memory while nearby Balla holds layers of…
Deel CastleCastleDeel Castle stands ruined beside the River Deel, a sixteen-century Bourke tower later renamed Castle Gore after James…
Corraun CastleCastleCorraun Castle is a ruined tower house on a limestone outcrop above Lough Corrib in County Mayo, built by the…
Cloonagashel CastleCastleCloonagashel Castle stood in County Mayo as a Burke stronghold beside the old town of Ballinrobe, where Monday markets…
Cloghans CastleCastle — tower houseCloghans Castle is a square limestone tower house in County Mayo, said to have been built by the Barrets, standing…
CastlenageehaCastle — unclassifiedCastlenageeha is a ruined D-shaped castle on a cliff edge above Rathfran Bay, where a later rectangular tower still…
CastlemagarretCastleIvy strangles the broken walls of Castlemagarret, swallowing the Georgian stone that the Ormsby family raised in the…
Castlemacgarrett HouseCastleCastlemacgarrett House stands as a castle in County Mayo, its identity preserved only through a public map record…
Castleconnor (in Ruins)Castle — hall-houseCastleconnor stands in County Mayo as a ruined hall-house, its stones stripped of roof and purpose but still arranged…
Castleburke in ruinsCastle — tower houseCastleburke rises from a rocky cleft on the NE shore of Lough Carra, its four-storey tower leaning into ruin after…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle stands unclassified in Portroyal, County Mayo, its history withheld from public view. The absence of facts does…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedUnder the southern shore of Island Lake, neat quoin stones and a strong bawn wall hint at a thirteenth or fourteenth…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastlehill House stands near Lough Conn after swallowing the castle during its 1830s construction. Tradition claims…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedKnox (1911, 325-7) identified the castle with earthworks straddling Tulrohaun and Carrowneden, suggesting a…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Ardnaree, a likely tower house on the east bank of the Moy near Ballina, changed hands through burning, raiding…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle stands unclassified in Carrickaneady, County Mayo. Its exact shape and purpose remain hidden from public view…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedBellass holds an unclassified castle in County Mayo, waiting for identification rather than diminishing its worth. The…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in Ballycarra, County Mayo, is an unclassified castle, which means even its own shape has not been decided. It…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Ballinrobe Demesne, County Mayo, Ireland: a Norman castle from the 1230's that became a manor…
CastleCastle — tower houseRichard MacSheonin raised the tower above a medieval church in Cross East during the mid 1500s, turning worship into a…
Castle (ruin)Castle — unclassifiedKnockalegan Castle reduced to a grassy mound in Mayo pasture, its walls razed and scattered stones swallowed by nettles…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle, ringwork in Brees is a D-shaped earthwork in Mayo pasture, with a scarp, fosse and inner platforms beside wet…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Mannin stands in County Mayo, Ireland, its walls and rooms waiting for a witness. Whether it guarded a coast…