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Ruins · near Cleggan

Cromwell's Barracks

Cromwell's Barracks is a ruin in the countryside 9.2 km north-west of Cleggan, County Galway.

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Ruins
From Cleggan
9.2 km north-west

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Plan of the country around Cromwell's Barracks, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Cromwell's Barracks

From the town
9.2 km north-west of the pier 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: Inishbofin Signal Tower (283 m), Vincent Josef O'Halloran (399 m), Loughnabraud (688 m), Lough Bofin (1.1 km) and Lough Fawna (1.2 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 Cromwell's Barracks?
In County Galway, 9.2 km north-west of Cleggan.
Are there other ruins nearby?
8 other ruins around $Cleggan; the closest is Inishbofin Signal Tower, 283 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/505885187, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.