Ballindooly Castle
Ballindooly Castle is a castle on Headford Road in Galway, County Galway, 4.0 km north of Eyre Square. Tower house.
- Kind
- Castles
- Street
- Headford Road
- From Eyre Square
- 4.0 km north
- Bus stop
- Ballindooley Cross, 605 m away
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Plan of the surrounding 300 m
Ballindooly Castle in pictures
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Getting to Ballindooly Castle
- By bus
- The nearest stop is Ballindooley Cross, 605 m away.
- 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
Headford Road itself has 97 named places on the map, and 1 car park along it.
Other sites within 3 km: Ballindooly Lough (290 m), Castlegar Castle (1.2 km), Leacht Cuimhne (2.5 km), Ballybrit Castle (2.6 km) and Lochán Mhionlaigh (2.7 km).
Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside
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.
Also on Headford Road
- 3 StorePhone shops
- ÁlainnCafés
- AldiSupermarkets
- An Mheitheal RotharBike shops
- BellissimoHairdressers
- BestDriveGarages
- BodkinBike hire
- BootsPharmacies
Everything on Headford Road (97 places)
Other castles around Galway
- Castlegar Castle1.2 kmCastlegar Road
- 3.3 km
- 3.3 km
- Terryland Castle3.5 kmBóthar Na dTreabh
- 3.8 km
- 7.1 km
- 7.6 km
- 7.9 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/146974260, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.