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County Galway (Gaillimh) in Connacht features 83 mapped castles, led by Oranmore Castle, Lough Cutra Castle, and Dunsandle Castle. Across these 83 listings, 39 feature verified photography and 53 include mapped nearby public parking. Medieval fortresses, Norman keeps, and tower houses.
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Lough Cutra Castle
Lough Cutra Castle is a privately owned 19th-century castle located near Gort in south County Galway, Ireland. The castle was designed by English architect John Nash for Colonel Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort. Construction started in 1811 and was completed in 1817. The castle was later acquired by and a residence of Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. The castle was purchased by Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort in 1952 and restored by Sir Humphry Wakefield, then husband of Gort's great-niece the Hon. Elizabeth Sidney.
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Dunsandle Castle
Dunsandle Castle is a 15th-century tower house near Athenry, County Galway, in Ireland.
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Clonbrock Castle
Clonbrock Castle is a 15th-century tower house near Ahascragh in County Galway, Ireland. It was owned by the Dillon family, who were later created Barons Clonbrock.
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Killeen Castle
Killeen Castle (Irish: Caisleán a' Chillín) is a 15th-century tower house in Killeen townland, near Castlegar, County Galway, on the western coast of Ireland. Originally built in 1493, the tower house and surrounding estate is historically associated with Blake family, one of the 14 tribes of Galway. A farmhouse was constructed abutting the western wall of the tower house during the 19th century, A large house was constructed on a hill to the north of the tower house, and with a gatehouse built on the N17 road. This large house (Killeen House) was burned down in 1922, together with many similar country houses of landed families, and subsequently demolished. The land and castle was later purchased by a farmer from Tuam who had been managing the estate. The castle was sold and passed through several owners in the late 20th century, being extended and converted into a private residence.
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Ashford Castle
Ashford Castle is a mainly Victorian and medieval castle near Cong on the County Mayo–Galway border in Ireland. The castle has been expanded over the centuries and turned into a five star hotel. It is located on the County Galway side of Lough Corrib and was previously owned by the Guinness family.
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Blake's Castle
Blake's Castle (Irish: Caisléan an Bhlácaigh) is an urban tower house built around 1470. The castle was used as the Galway County Gaol from 1686 to 1810. It is located on Quay Street in Galway City, Ireland. The castle is one of the two surviving fortified town houses in Galway city owned by the Tribes of Galway, the other being Lynch's Castle.
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Arkin's Castle
Arkin's Castle (Irish: Caisleán Aircín) is a 13th-century ruined castle on the island of Inishmore, County Galway, Ireland. It is owned by the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment of Ireland.
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Dunguaire Castle
Dunguaire Castle (Irish: Dún Guaire) is a 16th-century tower house on the southeastern shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland, near Kinvara (also spelled Kinvarra). The name derives from the dun (fort) of King Guaire, the legendary king of Connacht. The castle's 75-foot (23 m) tower and its defensive wall have been restored in the 1980s. However the castle has been closed since 2023. It's owner Shannon Airport Group offered it for sale to Galway County Council who have declined due to lack of funds. Therefore the castle is now closed to visitors. Frustration grows in Galway as funding dispute keeps the castle gates shut.
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Aughnanure Castle
Aughnanure Castle is a tower house near Oughterard on the N59, in County Galway, in the west of Ireland. It was built by the O'Flaherty family in the late 15th century and fully restored in the 1960s. Today it is open to visitors from March to November.
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Clifden Castle
Clifden Castle is a ruined manor house west of the town of Clifden in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland. It was built c. 1818 for John D'Arcy, the local landowner, in the Gothic Revival style. It fell into disrepair after becoming uninhabited in 1894. In 1935, ownership passed to a group of tenants, who were to own it jointly, and it quickly became a ruin.
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Thoor Ballylee
Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats's Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats. It has been described as "the most important public building in Ireland" by late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
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Glinsk Castle
Glinsk Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
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Portumna Castle
Portumna Castle is a semi-fortified house in Portumna, County Galway, Ireland which was built in the early 17th century by Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde.
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Athenry Castle
Athenry Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in Athenry, Ireland.
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Dunmore Castle
Dunmore Castle is a castle and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
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Fiddaun Castle
Fiddaun Castle is a tower house in Tubber, County Galway, close to the border of County Clare in Ireland. It is a National Monument of Ireland.
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Isert Kelly Castle
Isert Kelly Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
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Feartagar Castle
Feartagar Castle, also called Jennings Castle, is a tower house and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
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Ardamullivan Castle
Ardamullivan Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
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Kilcolgan Castle
Kilcolgan Castle is a historic castle located in County Galway. The property stands as a notable example of the area's castle architecture.
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Moyode Castle
Moyode Castle is a historic castle situated in County Galway. It stands as a notable historic structure in the region.
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Caisleán Uí Bhriain
O'Brien's Castle, also called Furmina Castle, is an early 15th century tower house and National Monument located on Inisheer, Ireland.
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Castlekirk
Castlekirk, also called Hen's Castle, is a tower house and National Monument located in Lough Corrib, Ireland.
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