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Fort Falkland

Fort Falkland is a ruin in the countryside 9.4 km east of Eyrecourt, County Galway.

Kind
Ruins
Street
Main Street
From Eyrecourt
9.4 km east
Dates from
1624

The map does not yet record a phone number, a website or opening hours for Fort Falkland. Anyone can add them on OpenStreetMap; this page picks the change up at the next refresh.

Plan of the country around Fort Falkland, 1.8 km across
The marker is this place; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town

Getting to Fort Falkland

From the town
9.4 km east of Main Street 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

Main Street itself has 5 named places on the map.

Other sites within 3 km: Fort Eliza (358 m) and Corrigans Corner (398 m).

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.

Also on Main Street

Everything on Main Street

Other ruins around Eyrecourt

  1. Fort Eliza
    Crank Road
    358 m
  2. 5.5 km
  3. 6.5 km
  4. 6.6 km
  5. 7.2 km
  6. 10.2 km
  7. 13.0 km
  8. 15.2 km

All 12 ruins around Eyrecourt

Questions people ask

Where is Fort Falkland?
In County Galway, 9.4 km east of Eyrecourt.
Are there other ruins nearby?
11 other ruins around $Eyrecourt; the closest is Fort Eliza, 358 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1110013394, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.