
What is recorded here
Cratloe Castle stands ruined in County Clare, a stripped tower house reduced to ghost limbs rather than a room you can enter. It is the kind of place that stops a car on a bad road, not because it is grand, but because it is still angular and unwilling to become ordinary. What is missing is easier to imagine than what remained: a family, a fire, a door that closed behind someone who believed the wall would hold.
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Date of upload: 19 December 2014
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Castle Donnell (Site of)Castle, unclassified · 1324 yd
Friary (Site of)Religious house, unclassified · 1380 yd
Cratloe Woodscountry house · 1395 yd
Muckinish PointHeadland · 1699 yd
Enclosure in CratloeEnclosure · 1.0 mi
t. Margarets Church (in ruins)Church · 1.5 mi
Sailors HaggardMemorial · 1.7 mi
Grass IslandIslet · 3.7 mi
Bunratty Castle and Folk ParkHeritage attraction · 3.9 miOther information
Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0