
What is recorded here
Pallas Castle is a five-storey Burke tower house built around 1500 in County Galway, still standing inside a rare complete bawn with corner turrets and a two-storey gatehouse. Its thick walls hide a winding stair, vaulted chamber and good fireplaces, while a thatched roof survived into the early 1900s. The Burkes built it, the Nugents took it after the Restoration, and Burke descendants may still live down the road, keeping the name warm in ordinary Galway life.
Pallas Castle is recorded as a castle in County Galway. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Pallas Castle in County Galway was built in the 17th century by the Blake family, an influential Anglo-Irish landowning family. It is remembered as a notable example of early Irish country house architecture and as part of the historical landscape of west Galway.
Places near here
Pallaswalled garden · 151 yd
Oak WoodForest · 333 yd
Bog WoodForest · 384 yd
Quarry in Brackery NorthQuarry · 1415 yd
‘Tobernaglora’Holy well · 1528 yd
LisnaroughanFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1.6 mi
Site of CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.6 mi
Church HillMountain / peak · 3.8 mi
Stonyisland BayBay · 4.4 mi
Friar's IslandIslet · 4.6 mi
Abbey IslandIslet · 4.8 miOther information
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