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Killeen Castle

Killeen Castle is a castle in the countryside 3.8 km south-west of Claregalway, County Galway.

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3.8 km south-west

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Plan of the country around Killeen Castle, 1.8 km across
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Killeen Castle in pictures

Killeen Castle
Killeen Castle
Irimurz, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Getting to Killeen Castle

From the town
3.8 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: Ballybrit Castle (2.4 km) and Treasure Island Kids Zone (2.9 km).

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 Claregalway

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  3. 3.9 km
  4. 4.4 km
  5. 5.7 km
  6. 6.3 km
  7. 6.5 km
  8. 7.1 km

All 14 castles around Claregalway

Questions people ask

Where is Killeen Castle?
In County Galway, 3.8 km south-west of Claregalway.
Are there other castles nearby?
13 other castles around $Claregalway; the closest is Castlegar Castle, 3.3 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1298644622, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.