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Castlegar Castle

Castlegar Castle is a castle on Castlegar Road in Galway, County Galway, 3.2 km north-east of Eyre Square. 14th century tower house built by deBurgo family. In ruins.

Kind
Castles
Street
Castlegar Road
From Eyre Square
3.2 km north-east
Bus stop
Stop (Bus Éireann), 175 m away

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Plan of the country around Castlegar Castle, 1.8 km across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the country around Castlegar Castle, 1.8 km across

Getting to Castlegar Castle

By bus
The nearest stop is an unnamed stop, served by Bus Éireann, 175 m away, with a shelter.
Directions from where you are
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While you are there

Other sites within 3 km: Ballindooly Lough (987 m), Ballindooly Castle (1.2 km), Ballybrit Castle (1.6 km), O'Sullivan Park (1.8 km) and Saint James' Church (2.1 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.

Other castles around Galway

  1. Ballindooly Castle
    Headford Road
    1.2 km
  2. 2.6 km
  3. Terryland Castle
    Bóthar Na dTreabh
    3.0 km
  4. 3.3 km
  5. 3.4 km
  6. 6.7 km
  7. 6.7 km
  8. 7.5 km

All 10 castles around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Castlegar Castle?
On Castlegar Road in Galway, 3.2 km north-east of Eyre Square.
Are there other castles nearby?
9 other castles around $Galway; the closest is Ballindooly Castle, 1.2 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/242990376, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.