Caher House
Caher House is a ruin in the countryside 9.5 km south of Ahascragh, County Galway.
- Kind
- Ruins
- From Ahascragh
- 9.5 km south
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Getting to Caher House
- From the town
- 9.5 km south of the bridge in a straight line; it is out in the country, so allow for the roads.
- Directions from where you are
- Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.
Around it
Other sites within 3 km: Lismurtagh (873 m), Lisnagreeve (1.0 km), West Wood (1.2 km), Caltragh Fort (1.7 km) and Lyons' Lough (1.9 km).
Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside
The name begins with cathair, the Irish for a stone-walled ringfort, so its walls were built of stone rather than banked earth.
Many of the ruins mapped around Tuam are tower houses, the tall stone farm-castles of the later Middle Ages, built to be lived in with a small household and defended when it came to that, with a vaulted floor against fire, corner bartizans and a machicolation above the door.
Written from Wikipedia, "Tower house" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.
Other ruins around Ahascragh
- 5.7 km
- 12.9 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1416927701, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.