Castles and forts in County Monaghan
The Discover Alone map has 24 castles and forts in County Monaghan, Ireland. Below are the 21 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Rossmore CastleRuinsRossmore Castle in County Monaghan stands as a ruined stepped platform overlooking Castle Lough, preserving the…Roosky Castle (Site of)Castle — ringworkRoosky Castle anchored the Dartry McMahon power on a narrow spur above Roosky Lough, where Brian Mac Aodha Óg Mac Mahon…
Mannan Castle (in ruins)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleMannan Castle stands as an Anglo-Norman masonry ruin on a ridge in Donaghmoyne, built in 1193 for Peter Pipard after…
IndicatedCastle — motte and baileyIndicated, Candlefort is a flat-topped conical castle mound standing eight metres high on a northern slope above the…
CastleCastle — motte and baileyPeter Pippard and Bishop John de Grey raised Clones Castle in 1211, but Hugh O'Neill routed the invading force and…
Blaney CastleCastleBlaney Castle stands in County Monaghan, a castle shape still visible after centuries of rain and neglect. Its rooms…Bawn in Roosky (monaghan By., Monaghan Par.)BawnBawn in Roosky is a rectangular castle enclosure built after 1604 by Sir Edward Blayney using material taken from the…
Bawn in OnomyBawnBawn in Onomy stands on a sloping shelf above Muckno Lough, where Edward Blayney built an eighteen-foot stone fortress…
Bawn in CrossmoyleBawnHalf-buried beneath Clones, the bawn still holds its angle: a vaulted chamber with musket loops, an east wall punched…- Mannan CastleArchaeological placeMannan Castle rises twelve metres above a Monaghan drumlin, marking the ancient capital of Airgíalla with a stone keep…
- IndicatedCastle — motte and baileyIndicated, Donaghmoyne is a vast motte and bailey castle on a Monaghan drumlin, built by Anglo-Norman settlers in 1193…
- Hilton ParkCastleHilton Park stands as a castle in County Monaghan, its identity preserved only through that single factual anchor. The…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedThere is a local tradition that a castle of the Mac Mahons’ stood in Killykeskeame townland, but it cannot be…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedFeahoe Castle vanished during the seventeenth century, leaving behind only a vague memory of a round tower rather than…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedDawson Grove Demesne hides a castle never properly classified, perhaps belonging to McMahon because local memory still…
- CastleHouse — fortified houseMaghernacloy is a fortified castle on a broad Monaghan hill, built for John Hadsor under a 1618 grant that required a…
- CastleHouse — fortified houseCastle, Drummond Otra is a ruined fortified house on a Carrickmacross bluff where girls still walk the courtyard of a…
- Castle BlayneyHouse — fortified houseCastle Blayney stood as an eighteen-foot stone bawn with corner bulwarks on a shelf above Muckno Lough, built by Sir…
- Bawn in Drummond OtraBawnEssex castle and its bawn rose on a Carrickmacross bluff in 1628, wrapping a fortified house in rectangular walls…
- HouseHouse — fortified houseOne rejected answer must be clear. The castle is a fortified house in Roosky, County Monaghan. It stood within a bawn…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle hunting is half imagination. The hill in Conaghy is real, the castle is not, and that difference is the whole…