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Ruins · near Clarinbridge

Ballybrit Castle

Ballybrit Castle is a ruin in the countryside 10.8 km north-west of Clarinbridge, County Galway.

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Ruins
From Clarinbridge
10.8 km north-west

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Plan of the country around Ballybrit Castle, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Ballybrit Castle

From the town
10.8 km north-west of the bridge 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: Treasure Island Kids Zone (1.2 km), Road of the Old Hag (1.4 km), Merlin Woods Playground (1.5 km), Merlin Park Castle (1.6 km) and Merlin Woods (1.8 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.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballybrit Castle?
In County Galway, 10.8 km north-west of Clarinbridge.
Are there other ruins nearby?
12 other ruins around $Clarinbridge; the closest is Saint James' Church, 2.1 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/1874187723, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.