Caher Castle
Caher Castle is a castle in the countryside 11.6 km north-east of Ardrahan, County Galway. Pete’s Castle is within 159 m.
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- Castles
- From Ardrahan
- 11.6 km north-east
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- Caher Castle on Wikipedia
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Getting to Caher Castle
- From the town
- 11.6 km north-east of the crossroads 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: Pete’s Castle (159 m) and 1421NWK022 Spring (1.6 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.
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.
Within a short walk
- Pete’s Castle159 mCastles
Other castles around Ardrahan
- 159 m
- 3.1 km
- 3.6 km
- 3.8 km
- 4.4 km
- 5.3 km
- 7.5 km
- 8.9 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1026329674, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.