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Athenry Castle

Athenry Castle is a castle on Court Lane in Athenry, County Galway, 189 m north-east of the Square. Joyce's Service Station The Arch, The Twelve Apostles and Vocational School Athenry are within 114 m.

Kind
Castles
Street
Court Lane
From the Square
189 m north-east
Website
heritageireland.ie
Run by
Office of Public Works
Read more
Athenry Castle on Wikipedia
Parking
Athenry Town on North Gate Street, 116 m away
Bus stop
The Arch Athenry, 144 m away

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Plan of the streets around Athenry Castle, 340 metres across
The building in black is this one; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town
Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Athenry Castle, 340 metres across

Athenry Castle in pictures

Athenry Castle - Ireland
Athenry Castle - Ireland
Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Getting to Athenry Castle

By car
Park at Athenry Town on North Gate Street, 116 m away, paid, 23 spaces. Athenry is 20 km from Galway city.
By bus
The nearest stop is The Arch Athenry, 144 m away.
Directions from where you are
Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

While you are there

20 places to eat and drink within 300 m: Luca's (171 m), The Square Inn (192 m), Crowe’s Bar (196 m) and Supermac's (197 m) and more.

12 shops within 300 m, including Blathanna, Athenry Country Market and This & That.

Court Lane itself has 2 named places on the map, and 1 car park along it.

Other sites within 3 km: The Twelve Apostles (107 m), Heritage Center (124 m), Rathacugga (1.8 km), Church (ruins) (2.1 km) and Kilcornan Lost Village (2.6 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

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

  1. 96 m
  2. 107 m
  3. 114 m
  4. 122 m
  5. 124 m
  6. 130 m
  7. Quick Cutz
    Hairdressers
    130 m
  8. 134 m

Also on Court Lane

Everything on Court Lane

Other castles around Athenry

  1. 4.3 km
  2. 5.7 km
  3. 5.7 km
  4. 5.9 km
  5. 7.7 km
  6. 7.7 km
  7. 7.8 km
  8. 8.6 km

All 20 castles around Athenry

Questions people ask

Where is Athenry Castle?
On Court Lane in Athenry, 189 m north-east of the Square; the nearest car park is 116 m away.
Are there other castles nearby?
19 other castles around $Athenry; the closest is Castle (ruins), 4.3 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/182944517, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.