Castles and forts in County Wicklow
The Discover Alone map has 76 castles and forts in County Wicklow, 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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(Site of) Raymond CastleCastle — unclassifiedKillaveny holds a castle only in memory. The valley widens beneath a SE-facing slope where people once pointed and…
Site of Phelims CastleCastle — tower houseLocal tradition places the 17th-century stronghold of Phelim McFeagh O'Byrne on a marked northeast-facing slope above…
Site of Phelim's CastleRuinsPhelim's Castle has fallen into ruins in County Wicklow, leaving behind a name rather than a visible wall. The loss is…
(Site of) Castle & RampartCastle — unclassifiedKilpipe Castle vanished beneath a gentle south-facing slope, leaving only a rectangular enclosure and a field still…
(Site of) Castle LaurenceCastle — unclassifiedCastle Laurence vanished beneath a barn on a gentle east-facing slope in Ballymanus. Sir Laurence Esmond, Baron of…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilballyowen: not a castle you can walk around, but a castle the survey still believed. The 1838 map gave it a square…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedCloghcastle vanished before human memory, leaving only a hidden castle ghost on a gentle E-facing slope in County…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDown Survey mapped a square keep with one extension in Castlesallagh townland, County Wicklow, beside the Slaney River.…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedMaccadams Castle rose within the medieval borough of Carysfort, watching the Avoca River from a narrow spur of ground.…
(Site of) CastleCastle — unclassifiedAughrim Upper hides a castle beneath a gentle slope, losing its walls to time while the neighbouring field keeps the…
Seskin Ho. in ruinsHouse — fortified houseSituated on the S side of a system of small fields enclosed by high, well- constructed walls known as 'the Orchard', of…
Round MountCastle — motteRound Mount rises six metres above the Leitrim River, a steep-sided motte buried in briars at the northern edge of…
Rathdown Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedRathdown Castle stands as a vanished square on the seabeaten shore of County Wicklow, its strong walls stripped in the…
Oldcourt CastleCastleOldcourt Castle is a four-storey tower house in County Wicklow, held from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries by the…
MoatamoyCastle — motteMoatamoy, Boleylug is a castle motte in County Wicklow, Ireland, built on the western edge of a cliff where two narrow…
Knockrath Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseKnockrath Castle was a 17th-century O'Byrne tower house with a circular NE corner, set inside two huge terraced…
Kindlestown Castle (in ruins)Castle — hall-houseKindletown Castle is a ruined two-storey hall-house in County Wicklow, built in the early fourteenth century and…
IndicatedCastle — motteIndicated, Powerscourt Demesne is a steep-sided glacial gravel hillock in County Wicklow, Ireland, possibly tied to the…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Fassaroe is a ruined granite tower house built by William Brabazon, Treasurer of Ireland, in 1535 on a…
Grangecon Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseGrangecon Castle stands as an ivy-strangled ruin northeast of Grangecon House, its western wall still holding a chimney…
Castleruddery MotteArchaeological placeCastleruddery Motte is a Hiberno-Norman earthwork built in the late 12th century to guard a river crossing in the…
CastlerudderyCastle — unclassifiedCastleruddery Lower hides beneath the house on a flat-topped Wicklow ridge, denied even a definite castle label in…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedMilltown castle stands in County Wicklow, a sixty-six-foot rectangle beside a nine-foot round tower with six loopholes.…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedThat castle vanished before O'Donovan wrote it down, leaving only an iron gate, a house and a grave yard to mark its…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Threecastles stands on an east-facing slope above the River Liffey, its three-storey stone tower still bearing a…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle is a circular ringwork on a gentle slope beside the Blessington Reservoir, where water has already taken the…
CastleCastle — ringworkCastle, ringwork in Ballyvolan Lower stands on a slight shelf in County Wicklow, Ireland. Its wide fosse and outer bank…
CastleCastle — motteMotte castle in Mount Kennedy Demesne, County Wicklow. A natural mound, perhaps shaped for defence, stands south of the…
CastleCastle — motteCastle is a modified ridge in Kilpipe, County Wicklow, where a flat-topped mound rises above a steep fosse and external…
CastleCastle — motteCastle, motte in Killamoat Upper stands as a circular steep-sided mound thirty-seven metres across, encircled by a wet…
CastleCastle — motteDeerpark Castle stands at the south end of a sand ridge, watching the Douglas River and its fording point like a guard…
CastleCastle — motteDonaghmore castle stands forty-one metres across on a steep south-facing slope, guarding the Slaney River ford at…
CastleCastle — motte and baileyCastle is a circular sand mound forty-five metres wide and up to seven metres high on the west end of an east-west…
Castle Kevin (in Ruins)Castle — motte and baileyCastlekevin rises as a broad rubble mound above a narrow ridge, marking the place where Henri de Londres first built…
Castle in ruinsCastle — tower houseCastle in ruins, Stump OF THE Castle: a square tower house with four corner towers, reduced to a stump and wall…
Castle (in Ruins)Castle — ringworkCastle (in Ruins) stands at the west end of a Wicklow ridge, its circular platform cut from living rock and guarded by…
Castle in ruinsCastle — unclassifiedCastlequarter holds a ruined castle on a gentle slope below Brusselstown Ring, where a stony platform still marks the…
Castle (in ruins)Castle — tower houseBurgage More stands as a ruined four-storey tower house inside a graveyard on the edge of Blessington Reservoir, where…
Castle (in ruin)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleArklow Castle rose from a rock outcrop above the Avoca river, its circular corner tower and curtain wall marking the…
Castle BankCastle — motte and baileyCastle Bank, Knockroe (talbotstown Lower By.) is a motte and bailey on the north summit of a steep ridge south of…
CastleCastle — tower houseCastle Baltinglass East was the abbot's tower house beside Baltinglass Abbey. Men demolished it in 1882 and carried its…
Cas.Castle — tower houseLittle Bray held a tower house so complete it stopped being a castle and became a road. Wheels have long since broken…
Cas.Castle — unclassifiedCas., Bray is a castle site in County Wicklow where a marked curve in the road still points to the lost structure. It…
Black Castle (in ruin)Castle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleBlack Castle stands ruined on a rocky Wicklow promontory, cut off from the land by a deep fosse and guarded by steep…
Bawn in Ballintruer BegBawnBawn in Ballintruer Beg is a stone enclosure beside a tower house in County Wicklow, Ireland. Its south wall stretches…
Ballycore RathCastle — motte and baileyBallycore Rath anchors the southwest tip of a narrow Wicklow ridge, forcing every approach through a single two-metre…
Ball MoatCastle — motteBall Moat rises forty metres across the Donard landscape, its steep natural sides topped by a narrow earthen bank and a…Athdown MoatCastle — motteAthdown Moat stood beside a Liffey ford in County Wicklow, a natural mound sharpened into a defensive castle by human…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOldcourt Castle vanished into a gentle western marsh, leaving only a thirty-centimetre ridge where stone and human life…
CastleCastle — unclassifiedBoystown and Baltyboys Lower still orbit the hidden castle, but no human hand has drawn its line. That absence is the…- TowerHouse — fortified houseOldcourt Castle stands as a seven-storey rubble tower on a knife-edge platform above a Wicklow stream valley, its…
- Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedThreecastles is a vanished castle on a Wicklow ridge, reduced to a rectangular shadow on an 1838 map while the live…
- Powerscourt HouseCastle — unclassifiedMnemo recorded Balyteny in 1316, marked ruin in 1355, then waited for the chamber to become visible again. She missed…
- Partially indicatedBawnOldcourt castle stood seventy feet tall beside a little river when surveyors measured its perfect walls in 1838. Its…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle in County Wicklow defies modern finding because no one has located the exact stones yet. It exists only through…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified in Rathtoole belongs to County Wicklow, Ireland, where a small fortress may have stood before 1303…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedKiltimon Castle anchored the O'Byrne district for 137 years, occupying a prominent strip beside the road from…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedKilcroney Castle is called a castle but has never been classified, leaving its true purpose and owner hidden behind a…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedCastle, unclassified occupies a polygonal ringwork on a slight shelf in Ballyvolan Lower, its stone wall reduced mostly…
- CastleCastle — unclassifiedColonel O'Toole's Castle vanished from Ballycullen when men levelled its last walls within a decade of O'Flanagan's…