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Dunmore Castle

Dunmore Castle is a castle in the town in Dunmore, County Galway, 1.0 km north-west of the Square. Rathcoll is within 223 m.

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From the Square
1.0 km north-west
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Dunmore Castle on Wikipedia

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Plan of the streets around Dunmore Castle, 340 metres across
The building in black is this one; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town
Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Dunmore Castle, 340 metres across

Dunmore Castle in pictures

Dunmore Castle
Dunmore Castle
DanielecDalton, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Getting to Dunmore Castle

Directions from where you are
Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

While you are there

Other sites within 3 km: Rathcoll (223 m), Dunmore House (1.2 km) and Knockatoura Fort (2.4 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

The name begins with dún, the Irish for a stronghold of some importance, not always ring-shaped.

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.

Within a short walk

  1. Rathcoll
    Ringforts and sites
    223 m

Other castles around Dunmore

  1. 10.2 km
  2. 10.7 km

All 3 castles around Dunmore

Questions people ask

Where is Dunmore Castle?
In Dunmore, County Galway, 1.0 km north-west of the Square.
Are there other castles nearby?
2 other castles around $Dunmore; the closest is Lerhin Castle, 10.2 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/771726219, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.