Castles and forts in County Westmeath
The Discover Alone map has 412 castles and forts in County Westmeath, 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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Turbotstown Ho.Castle — unclassifiedMelted pots and broken glass still scatter the grass where Turbotstown Castle stood before the house rose above it.…
TullymagawlyBawnTullymagawly is the last seat of the Magawlys of Calry, where a modest house still stands beside a high wall of old…
TullaghanCastle — tower houseMoyashel and Magheradernon By. are no longer visible because water, time and forgetting removed them from the local…
TowerCastle — tower houseTower, Newcastle (fore By.) stands as a four-storey limestone tower house on a low ridge beside Newcastle House, its…
Togher CastleCastleNine metres of ivy-clad limestone still stand where Togher Castle commanded the flat Westmeath pasture, its south wall…
Taghmon CastleCastle — tower houseTaghmon Castle stands as a three-storey tower house on flat pasture in County Westmeath, where Sir Thomas Nugent held…
Syonan CastleCastleSyonan Castle is a four-storey limestone tower built before 1566 for the McGeoghegan clan, standing on a small ridge in…
Stremmingstown CastleCastleStremmingstown Castle stands in County Westmeath, a stone anchor in the western landscape. Its walls likely watched…
Sterns Folly, The BreenCastle — ringworkThe Breen is a surviving ringwork castle in Bryanmore Upper where medieval stone walls still break through pasture…
Site of Lissanode CastleCastle — unclassifiedLissanode Castle was a tower house on the boundary with Ballycloghduff, lost to pasture before modern memory. In…
Site of Fennor CastleCastle — tower houseFennor Castle left behind nine metres of buried wall and a forgotten oval ditch, proving that even modest towers…
Site of Doon CastleCastle — ringworkDoon Castle is a large circular earthwork in wet Westmeath pasture, its double banks and ditches still marking the…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedSimonstown Castle stood on a small hill in County Westmeath, its rectangular earthworks overlooking pasture until…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathconnell Castle stood beside a medieval roadway and church on lands belonging to Edward Nugent, an Irish papist…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathaspick Castle stood beside its medieval church in County Westmeath when surveyed in 1659, still in repair according…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedTwo maps argue about where the castle stood, fifty metres apart on a slight rise in Paddinstown Lower. The 1837 map…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedMullingar once held five old-fashioned castles, including a square tower at the Castle Street junction that soldiers…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedMullingar’s castle turned into a bread store before disappearing beneath a modern car park. Robert Harrysson may have…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Hill still rises slightly above the pasture north of Milltownpass, though no wall or room remains visible. The…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle Glascarn fell into undulating Westmeath pasture, leaving behind a narrow ridge of limestone rubble and vanished…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCroughal Castle occupied a prominent hillock in County Westmeath, offering unbroken views across pasture long before…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastletown Upper hides a vanished castle because surveyors marked the wrong field, forcing the true structure to…
Site of CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Kindalen is a D-shaped scar of earth and stone beside Castletown Geoghegan, where the MacGeoghegan tower house…
Site of Castle, Castle FieldCastle — unclassifiedCastle Field holds two grass-covered wall footings forming a rough square beside a low scarp, marking the vanished…
Simonstown Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedSimonstown Castle stood on a ridge above a river, watching the pasture long before its stones vanished into a nearby…
Shinglis CourtCastle — unclassifiedShinglis Court was a castle on the lands of James Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, recorded in 1657 and still ruinated in…
Robinstown CastleCastleRobinstown Castle in County Westmeath is a Tudor rebel stronghold where Nicholas Nugent, Chief Justice of the Common…
Rattin CastleCastle — tower houseRattin Castle is a massive, plain tower house in County Westmeath, built around the mid-fourteenth century for the…
Rathwire Moat & CastleCastle — motte and baileyRathwire Castle rose as a steep motte and kidney-shaped bailey near Killucan, possibly built by Hugh de Lacy between…
Rathdrishoge CastleCastle — unclassifiedRathdrishoge Castle stands as a long rectangular shadow on a south-facing slope, its grass-covered walls stretching…
RathconrathCastle — motteRathconrath rises fourteen hundred feet above the undulating Westmeath pasture, a steep-sided circular mound still…
Rahugh MoatCastle — motte and baileyRahugh Moat stands on a Westmeath ridge above undulating pasture, its circular earthwork and semi-circular bailey still…
Plary Monastery (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseThe circular tower of Plary Monastery stands two storeys high in Ballymore, its thick limestone walls guarding a…
Petits Castle Mote & Mill (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedWilliam le Petit raised his motte castle above the Brosna ford in the late 12th century, making Mullingar the heart of…
Partially outlinedCastle — unclassifiedKillinlahan is a ruined D-shaped castle on a Westmeath hillock, its mortared wall reduced mostly to grass-covered…
Partially indicatedBawnHalf a kilometre southeast of Croughal church, a wide water-filled moat still cuts through flat, rushy pasture…
Partially indicatedCastle — motteOne sentence only. Multyfarnham still keeps a flat-topped castle mound beside St. Nicholas’ Church, with the River…
Partially hachuredCastle — ringworkHalf-hidden beneath grass and shadow, the ringwork at Laragh still holds its shape on the ridge, two banks and a berm…
OutlinedCastle — tower houseKnockdrin holds a rectangular tower rising nine metres beside the River Gaine, its narrow windows still wearing brick…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedKilladoughran is an unclassified castle on a Westmeath hill above Lough Nacarrick, preserved as a broad rectangular…
OutlinedBawnHopestown Bawn is a rectangular enclosure of earth, stone and memory beside Hopestown Castle in County Westmeath. It…
OutlinedCastle — motteGallstown mound stands as a castle motte on level pasture in County Westmeath, visible from every direction. It sits…OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedNo wall or stone still stands where the 1837 survey marked a small rectangular ruin on the west shore of Lough Ennell.…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedCrosserdree castle stood on a low rock hillock in County Westmeath, visible enough for Larkin’s 1808 map but fading…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedLoghter Castle guarded the Inny River crossing for James Dillon, 1st Earl of Roscommon, until drainage works buried its…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedBrackagh Castle vanished into Westmeath bog before modern cameras existed, leaving only a square shadow on an 1837 map…
OutlinedBawnBallycorkey is a drowned castle bawn on the Inny River, reduced to a shallow fosse and a single limestone fragment…
OutlinedCastle — motte and baileyBallybrickoge is a motte-and-bailey castle buried under grass and memory in County Westmeath. Its mound still rises…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedTwo medieval castles guarded the Inny River crossing at Ballinalack, splitting the Mullingar-Longford road between…
Oldtown CastleCastleOldtown Castle is a ruined medieval stronghold near Milltown, County Westmeath. Its low grass-covered walls still mark…
Old Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedOld Castle stands on a small island in Waterstown Lough, County Westmeath, where O’ Maelachlainn and allies broke it…
Nugent's CastleCastleNugent's Castle stands in County Westmeath, a castle marked only by name and region in the open record. The gap is not…
Mulchans Castle in ruinsCastle — tower houseMulchans Castle in ruins, Mulchanstown is a small tower house on a scarped hillock above a lake, reduced to a…
Moydrum CastleCastle — unclassifiedMoydrum Castle is a phantom because two different buildings share one name across a barony boundary. The medieval…
Moydrum CastleCastleMoydrum Castle rose in 1814 as a gothic mansion for the Handcock family, whose lands stretched across fourteen square…
Mortimer's CastleArchaeological placeMortimer's Castle stands on the east bank of Lough Derravaragh in County Westmeath, a large Anglo-Norman fortress…
Montrath Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseMontrath Castle stands as a ruined tower house on a small hillock in Monasset, County Westmeath, where the 1656 Down…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyMoat - Tinode is an Anglo-Norman motte and bailey castle in County Westmeath, Ireland, built on a steep-sided mound…
Moat of PassCastle — motteThirty metres east of the Pass of Kilbride, a two-metre steep-sided motte rises above the undulating countryside, its…
MoatCastle — motte and baileyFore Castle stood on a Westmeath ridge where de Lacy held power until King John seized it in 1210. Its oval motte rises…