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Ruins · near Ballyconneely

Old Fixed Lighthouse

Old Fixed Lighthouse is a ruin in the countryside 11.1 km west of Ballyconneely, County Galway.

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Ruins
From Ballyconneely
11.1 km west

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Plan of the country around Old Fixed Lighthouse, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Old Fixed Lighthouse

From the town
11.1 km west of the village in a straight line; it is out in the country, so allow for the roads.
Directions from where you are
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Around it

Other sites within 3 km: Saint Cauleen's Chapel (2.0 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

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 Ballyconneely

  1. 2.0 km
  2. 8.1 km
  3. 14.8 km
  4. 16.6 km
  5. 18.2 km
  6. 21.0 km

All 7 ruins around Ballyconneely

Questions people ask

Where is Old Fixed Lighthouse?
In County Galway, 11.1 km west of Ballyconneely.
Are there other ruins nearby?
6 other ruins around $Ballyconneely; the closest is Saint Cauleen's Chapel, 2.0 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1166108456, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.