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Menlo Castle

Menlo Castle is a castle in the town in Galway, County Galway, 3.0 km north-west of Eyre Square. Menlo Castle fire memorial is within 100 m.

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Castles
From Eyre Square
3.0 km north-west
Parking
Unit 6 Visitor Car Park on Galway Business Park, 573 m away
Bus stop
Stop (University of Galway), 720 m away

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Plan of the country around Menlo Castle, 1.8 km 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 country around Menlo Castle, 1.8 km across

Getting to Menlo Castle

By car
Park at Unit 6 Visitor Car Park on Galway Business Park, 573 m away, free.
By bus
The nearest stop is an unnamed stop, served by University of Galway, 720 m away, with a shelter.
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: Menlo Castle fire memorial (100 m), Tea House Folly (281 m), Menlo Castle Entrance Arch (418 m), Famine cottages (543 m) and An Chrois (549 m).

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.

Within a short walk

  1. 100 m

Other castles around Galway

  1. Terryland Castle
    Bóthar Na dTreabh
    1.8 km
  2. Ballindooly Castle
    Headford Road
    3.3 km
  3. Castlegar Castle
    Castlegar Road
    3.4 km
  4. 5.4 km
  5. 6.5 km
  6. 9.1 km
  7. 9.7 km
  8. 10.1 km

All 10 castles around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Menlo Castle?
In Galway, County Galway, 3.0 km north-west of Eyre Square; the nearest car park is 573 m away.
Are there other castles nearby?
9 other castles around $Galway; the closest is Terryland Castle, 1.8 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/290247883, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.