The Old Forge
The Old Forge is a ruin in the countryside 8.2 km north-east of Cleggan, County Galway.
- Kind
- Ruins
- From Cleggan
- 8.2 km north-east
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Getting to The Old Forge
- From the town
- 8.2 km north-east of the pier 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: Renvyle Castle (682 m), Well of the Seven Daughters (881 m), Church of the Seven Daughters (975 m), Rushenduff Lough (1.0 km) and Islands \View (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 Cleggan
- 975 m
- 4.8 km
- 7.1 km
- 12.5 km
- 12.6 km
- 13.0 km
- 13.3 km
- 13.4 km
Questions people ask
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1193029660, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.