Castles and forts in County Sligo
The Discover Alone map has 133 castles and forts in County Sligo, 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 — motteInishmore Island is an island inside a lake, a small world within a larger one, and the tumulus stands at its western…
Site of Dunneill CastleCastle — unclassifiedDooniell Castle was an O'Dowd stronghold named for chieftain Neill, later held by MacSweeneys and guarded in 1641 by…
Roslee CastleCastle — tower houseRoslee Castle is a three-storey tower house in County Sligo, built by Oliver McDonnell in 1207 and held by his family…
RathdoonyCastle — motteRathdoony More is a six-metre conical mound on a Sligo ridge, possibly the vanished castle of Ath-na-Gail built by…
Moymlough Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMoymlough Castle is a ruined tower house built by the O'Haras in County Sligo. Uncoursed limestone blocks still stand…
Moygara Castle (in Ruins)BawnMoygara Castle is a ruined square bawn in County Sligo where uncoursed rubble walls still stand close to full height…
Moygara CastleCastleMoygara Castle stands in County Sligo, an abandoned castle marked only by a map point and a conservation project. It is…
MoteCastle — motteMote, Gortlownan is an oval castle mound in County Sligo, Ireland. It stands beside the Sligo-Leitrim boundary stream…
Markree CastleCastleMarkree Castle in County Sligo is the ancestral seat of the Cooper family, partially moated by the River Unshin. The…
Knocklane CastleRuinsKnocklane Castle lies broken in County Sligo, its stones scattered enough to suggest violence or time but not enough to…
IndicatedBawnIndicated is a ruined bawn and tower-house complex on the north shore of Templehouse Lake in County Sligo. A…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Rathosey is a circular castle motte on the west bank of the Owenbeg River in County Sligo. Its flat top…
HouseHouse — fortified houseHouse is a fortified house in Ballincar, County Sligo. It stands as a reminder that ordinary living once required…
Drumcondra Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseDoonamurry Castle stood on a gravel knoll above the bog when O'Donnell captured it in 1516, but railway builders later…
Coola Castle (in Ruins)BawnCoola Castle is a ruined bawn in County Sligo where a four-metre limestone wall still stands on a slope break, pierced…
Classiebawn CastleCastleYellow-brown sandstone from Donegal catches the Atlantic light on the Mullaghmore Peninsula, marking the hill where the…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Unknown is a castle in County Sligo, Ireland. Baptista Boazio marked it in west Sligo on a map…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedBaptista Boazio's chart from 1590 marks a castle in County Sligo, but no exact point remains. The castle may have stood…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedBoazio's ink still marks an unknown castle in west Sligo, a point of stone or shadow on a 16th-century chart. It may…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Kingsfort (tirerrill By.) stands on level ground to the SE of Ballintogher village, where an…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle tradition in Cuppanagh credits an O'Gara castle to a low stone platform beside a moated site. Grass and time…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Cabraghkeel stands at the mouth of the Leaffony River, where Killala Bay breathes salt air over…
Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedTullanaglug is a lost castle reduced to a low ridge of broken stone beside the River Moy. The 1838 survey still drew it…
Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedLissadill Castle vanished into County Sligo soil, leaving behind a hollow where stone once stood. Its exact purpose and…
Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedKnockmullin is an empty rise in a Sligo meadow where a MacDonagh castle stood until its stones were hammered into every…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle in Oldgrange is a ringwork where two low banks of earth and stone still surround a raised circular area facing…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle ringwork in Ballinphull stands forty feet above pasture, a steep oval mound with a level summit and a broken…
Castle PointCastle — unclassifiedCastle Point stands inside Hazelwood Demesne in County Sligo, but no clear description survives to say whether it was a…
CastleCastle — motteCastle rises three metres above undulating Sligo grassland, its oval summit guarded by a mossy stony bank and a shallow…
CastleCastle — motteCastle, motte in Ballynahowna is a steep, irregular mound beside the Easky River, shaped from a natural slope rather…
CastleCastle — motte and baileyCastle is a motte and bailey in Carrownagilty where a D-shaped mound and oval enclosure still hold their shape beneath…
CastleCastle — motte and baileyCastle, motte and bailey in Ballygrania stands as a steep earthen mound and raised rectangular yard within the demesne…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedCastle Point is a narrow island in Lough Gara where a castle once belonged to the O'Garas. A stony bank and shallow…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseConor Mac Donagh built Castledargan in 1422 on a sheer cliff above Lough Dargan, leaving two ruined limestone blocks…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedCartronmore castle stands in ruins beside Sligo, its stones scattered enough to suggest violence or neglect but…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseCastle (in Ruins), Belclare stands as a ruined tower house in County Sligo, Ireland. The ivy-clad north corner still…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseMacDonaghs built the tower house at Ballynaraw South, where the Bunnanaddan river still flows beside a marsh of rushes.…
Castle FirbisCastle — tower houseCastle Firbis rose on a slight Sligo rise in 1560, built by the MacFirbis to watch the eastern shore of Killala Bay.…
Castle Douglas (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedCarrowcashel: Castle Douglas (Site of), unclassified castle in County Sligo, Ireland. Near the bluff's north end, a…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedCoolbeg castle in County Sligo is an unclassified ruin, but the lack of a label does not mean a lack of history. It is…
CastleCastle — tower houseCashelboy is a late 16th century tower house in County Sligo, Ireland. Its thick limestone walls, narrow stair and…
Castle Carragh in RuinsCastle — unclassifiedCastle Carragh stands as a castle in ruins on the lower southern slopes of the Ox Mountains in County Sligo. Its…
Castle BaldwinCastleCastle Baldwin stands in County Sligo, a name dropped into the landscape like a stone into dark water. Whether it…
CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleCastle Ardabrone is an Anglo-Norman masonry castle in County Sligo, apparently built by the O'Dowds, the Lords of…
CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleMaurice Fitzgerald raised the first stones in the 1240s to strangle the Garvoge crossing, but O’Donnell later crushed…
Bricklieve Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedBricklieve Castle stood as a documented O'Donnell stronghold in 1512 before passing to Gilbert Green in 1593, leaving…Behy Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseBehy Castle is the stripped NW corner of a MacDonagh tower, reduced to two storeys and a fallen block beside a grassy…
Bawn in Tanrego WestBawnBawn in Tanrego West is a large limestone enclosure on the west shore of Ballisodare Bay, built in the late 17th or…
Bawn in Longford DemesneBawnBawn in Longford Demesne is a vanished walled estate in County Sligo, lost beneath level pasture and absent from every…
Bawn in DoonforeBawnDoonfore holds a bawn, yet no human name or date has emerged to identify it. The land may have served as a boundary…
Bawn in CastletownBawnMnemo measures the bawn in centimetres and casts the survey in the dark chamber. O'Donovan's numbers become a turning…
Bawn in CarrowbrickeenBawnCarrowbrickeen is a quiet field in County Sligo where a forgotten bawn still holds its shape beneath the grass. The…
Ballynahowna CastleCastle — tower houseBallynahowna Castle occupied a narrow dry terrace above the Easkey River, where shallow bedrock and low cataracts…
Ballymote CastleCastleBallymote Castle stands as the last of the Norman castles in Connacht, built around 1300 by Richard de Burgh to guard…
Ballyfahy Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedBallyfahy Castle stands as a rectangular shadow on a low drumlin in County Sligo, its walls reduced to sod-covered…
Ballyara Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedBallyara Castle belonged to the O'Hara name and still stands in memory though quarry scars have swallowed most of its…
Ballindoon Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedBallindoon Castle stood on a steep slope above Lough Arrow until Hugh O'Conor captured and dismantled it in 1352. Its…
Ballinafad CastleCastleBallinafad Castle, built in 1590 by Sir Richard Bingham to guard the Curlew Pass, still wears four corner towers and…
Bawn in ArdtermonBawnBawn in Ardtermon is a bawn in County Sligo, Ireland. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland has not uploaded its…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedMortared castle foundations still surface beneath the potato soil of Tullyhugh, hinting that William Clifford and the…