Killure Castle
Killure Castle is a castle in the countryside 4.2 km south-east of Ahascragh, County Galway.
- Kind
- Castles
- From Ahascragh
- 4.2 km south-east
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Getting to Killure Castle
- From the town
- 4.2 km south-east 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
Nothing else is named on the map within 300 m; the model shows the buildings around it.
Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside
The name begins with cill, the Irish for a church, which usually marks an early church site.
Most of the castles around Tuam are tower houses rather than the great fortresses the word suggests: tall stone towers built from the later Middle Ages onward to be lived in as much as defended, commanding a crossing or a stretch of good land with a small household. They first appeared in Ireland, Scotland, England and the Frisian and north Spanish coasts in the High Middle Ages and spread from there; in Scotland's borders they were the peel towers, in Italy the city towers of feuding families. A good tower house has a vaulted floor against fire, a stone stair, corner bartizans to cover the walls, and a machicolation over the door for dropping things on whoever is knocking.
Written from Wikipedia, "Tower house" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.
Other castles around Ahascragh
- 5.5 km
- 7.4 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1308680343, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.