Castles and forts in County Tipperary
The Discover Alone map has 766 castles and forts in County Tipperary, 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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Woodinstown Ho.Castle — tower houseWoodinstown Ho. is a late 16th/early 17th-century tower house on a narrow ridge in County Tipperary, built for Edward…
VestryCastleVestry is a castle in County Tipperary, Ireland. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them…
Tullamain MoatCastle — motte and baileyTullamain Castle stands on a narrow ridge in County Tipperary, its steep motte and broad defensive banks preserving the…
Tullahedy CastleCastleTullahedy Castle is a ruined tower house in County Tipperary, Ireland. Built during the late medieval period, it stood…
Townlough CastleCastleMentioned in local sources as a castle in County Tipperary, Townlough Castle belongs to the ordinary world of human…
Tower (in Ruins)BawnCastlewaller bawn still stands on its south-facing slope in County Tipperary, eighty-two metres long and forty-nine…
Tomona Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedTomona Castle stood on marsh and rock at Youghal Bay, but by 1654 only ruined walls remained beside Lough Derg. A…
Tombrickan CastleCastleTombrickan Castle stands in County Tipperary, a castle whose name resists easy explanation but whose purpose was clear…
Thomastown Castle GateRuinsThomastown Castle Gate stands as a ruined threshold in County Tipperary, its stones stripped of every name and date…
Thomastown CastleCastleThomastown Castle stands as a ruined Gothic country house in County Tipperary, enlarged by Francis Matthew in 1812…
The MoatCastle — motte and baileyLorrha Castle rose on the sacred boundary of an old monastic town, marking the violent birth of secular power over…
The MoatCastle — motteCloncannon Castle stood as one of six stone strongholds in Aghnameadle before decay and quarrying erased its walls…
Synone CastleCastleSynone Castle stands as a circular limestone tower in County Tipperary, its thick walls and battlements preserved from…
Suir CastleCastleSuir Castle in Ballyvada, County Tipperary, is a four-storey limestone tower house built on a natural platform above…
St. Johns Monastery (in ruins)Castle — hall-houseSt. Johns Monastery stands as a two-storey limestone hall-house on a raised outcrop behind the Castle View public…
South ParkCastle — unclassifiedSouth Park stands on a SW-facing slope above pastureland, where a late 18th-century house still wears the bones of an…
Slainstown Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseSlainstown Castle stands as a ruined three-storey tower house on a flat-topped ridge in County Tipperary, its limestone…
Site of Williamstown CastleCastle — unclassifiedWilliamstown Castle vanished before human memory, leaving only a SE-facing grass slope where maps still mark its…
Site of Shanspaur (site of)Castle — unclassifiedArdmayle West sits atop high grassland, commanding views in every direction while hiding its own shape beneath soil and…
Site of Seefin CastleCastle — unclassifiedSeefin Castle stood in good repair during the Civil Survey of 1654-6, but by 1840 only a twelve-foot wall and a…
Site of Robertstown CastleArchaeological placeRobertstown Castle stands as a lost shape in County Tipperary, its walls perhaps reduced to soil and memory. The name…
(Site of) Pallas CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castlePallas More stands as a collapsed Anglo-Norman castle on a natural rock ridge in County Tipperary, where a rock-cut…
Site of Pallas CastleCastle — unclassifiedPallas Castle stood on a slight rise beside the Pallas river as a limestone tower house with a thick bawn wall…
Site of Lisnamrock CastleCastle — unclassifiedLisnamrock Castle vanished into Tipperary grassland, leaving only a large tree and well house to mark the spot where…
(Site of) Killerk CastleCastle — unclassifiedKillerk Castle belonged to Nicholas Everard of Fethard when it was already an old broken castle, and it remained a…
(Site of) Drangan CastleCastle — unclassifiedKnockuragh is the lost castle of the Dunboyne Butlers, reduced by quarrying to fragmentary limestone walls and drainage…
Site of Derryleigh CastleCastle — unclassifiedDerryleigh Castle stood on a south-facing slope until Mr Hanrahan razed it in 1839, leaving only a bank of rubbish…
Site of Cullen CastleCastle — unclassifiedCullen Castle stood on high Tipperary ground in 1654, still holding a working mill and thatched houses while Barnaby…
Site of Cloghonan CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloch Othanain means the Rock of Othanan, but no surviving exact account says who Othanan was or when the castle stood.…
Site of Clocully CastleCastle — unclassifiedClocully Castle vanished so completely that a corrugated iron shed now occupies its exact location on the gentle NW…
Site of Castle SheelaCastle — tower houseCastle Sheela stood on the highest point of a narrow ridge, watching Lough Derg and the changing weather above…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedRossestown Castle collapsed into a low rectangular platform and a stony seam at its south-east edge, hiding the home of…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathcoun castle reduced to a mossy rectangular scar beside its enclosure, its walls cut into the upslope and a fallen…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Rapla North stood on a scarped hilltop in County Tipperary, its circular platform measuring fifty-six metres…Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOldcastle belongs to the O'Dwyer line and sat on a slight rise beside a north-western stream. By 1654 it had become…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastleford is no longer visible, but the valley still holds the shape of its absence. The De Prendergasts made it their…
Site of Castle LoaghnyCastle — unclassifiedCastle Loaghny stands hidden beneath grass on a SW-facing slope, its walls stripped of large stones for nearby houses.…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedLissava Castle stands as a ruined stump on high ground in a deserted Tipperary farmyard, its two-metre-thick walls…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilknockan Castle belonged to Nicholas Everard of Fethard in 1640, yet agricultural development erased its last low…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedInchirourke Castle stands as a broken limestone chamber on a low Tipperary rise, its vaulted ceiling still carrying the…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDundrum Castle belonged to the O'Dwyers, Lords of Kilnamanagh, but by 1654 it stood wanting repair and by 1892 it had…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDonaskeagh Castle stands as a level square knoll in lush Tipperary pasture, overlooking the Multeen river valley. Out…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCathaganstown is the hidden heart of a lost castle, its stones dragged from the ground and rebuilt into an ordinary…
Site of CastleCastle — motte and baileyKillenaule Castle stood beside the river in 1441, holding Walter De Burgo in its dark cellar while the Slieveardagh…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallynilard castle stood on a low rise above a northern stream, watching the land in every direction before men…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallingarry Lower castle stood on high upland ground with a mill beside a little brook and a church nearby, but time…
Site of Cashlauncreen CastleCastle — tower houseCashlauncreen Castle stood as a tower house on a narrow northern spur above a restless stream, its long foundation once…
Site of Carrigeen CastleCastle — unclassifiedCarrigeen Castle occupied a nine-by-four-metre summit above the River Moyle, so narrow that any building must have…
Site of Black CastleCastle — unclassifiedBlackcastle rose on an oval mound in Tipperary, mapping a ruined stone chamber before soil and forgetting erased its…Site of Bawn CastleCastle — unclassifiedBawn Castle stood on a natural rise with clear views in every direction, but no wall, hall or roof remains visible…
Site of Ballygown CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallygown Castle vanished before the first map drew its ghost, leaving only a low rise and a memory near Dean Holme's…
Site of Ballinhalla CastleCastle — unclassifiedBallinhalla Castle has vanished completely, leaving only a moated hollow on flat Tipperary ground where maps still…
Short Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseShortcastle is a ruined limestone tower house in County Tipperary that belonged to Sir Richard Butler in 1640, when…
Shanrahan CastleCastle — hall-houseShanrahan Castle stands on a natural rise above the River Duag, its sandstone walls cracked and half-swallowed by ivy.…
Shanballyduff CastleCastleShanballyduff Castle is a four-storey limestone tower house on a Tipperary hilltop, still standing with its base-batter…
Shanbally fortCastle — ringwork and baileyShanbally fort is a ringwork and bailey on a hillock in County Tipperary, preserved inside improved pasture and marked…
Shanbally CastleCastleShanbally Castle was the largest house John Nash ever built in Ireland, rising near Clogheen for Cornelius O'Callaghan…
Shanaclogh CastleCastle — unclassifiedShanaclogh Castle stands on a natural rise overlooking Cappagh, its limestone walls reduced to a metre and a half of…
Saint Johnstown CastleCastleJohnstown Castle stands in Tipperary, its name preserved though much of its history has faded. The land around it may…
Rorardstown Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedRorardstown Castle has vanished so completely that only confused earthen banks remain on the high ground, hiding a…