Famine cottages
Famine cottages is a ruin in the countryside 9.5 km south-west of Claregalway, County Galway. An Chrois and Menlo Castle Entrance Arch are within 131 m.
- Kind
- Ruins
- From Claregalway
- 9.5 km south-west
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Getting to Famine cottages
- From the town
- 9.5 km south-west 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: An Chrois (23 m), Menlo Castle Entrance Arch (131 m), Lochán Mhionlaigh (411 m), Menlo Castle fire memorial (515 m) and Menlo Castle (543 m).
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.
Within a short walk
- An Chrois23 mRingforts and sites
- 131 m
Other ruins around Claregalway
- 131 m
- 813 m
- 1.6 km
- 4.5 km
- 4.5 km
- 5.1 km
- 9.0 km
- 9.6 km
Questions people ask
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Source record: OpenStreetMap node/12585563247, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.