Merlin Park Castle
Merlin Park Castle is a castle in the town in Galway, County Galway, 3.4 km east of Eyre Square. Merlinpark Castle is within 109 m.
- Kind
- Castles
- From Eyre Square
- 3.4 km east
- Read more
- Merlin Park Castle on Wikipedia
- Parking
- Clareview Park on Clareview Park, 592 m away
- Bus stop
- Merlin Park Hospital (Bus Éireann), 383 m away
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Plan of the surrounding 300 m
Merlin Park Castle in pictures
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Getting to Merlin Park Castle
- By car
- Park at Clareview Park on Clareview Park, 592 m away, free.
- By bus
- The nearest stop is Merlin Park Hospital, served by Bus Éireann, 383 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: Merlin Woods (306 m), Merlin Woods Playground (765 m), Aunteen Woods (773 m), Uncleen Woods (889 m) and Treasure Island Kids Zone (1.2 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.
Within a short walk
- Merlinpark Castle109 mVisitor information
Other castles around Galway
- Castlegar Castle2.6 kmCastlegar Road
- Ballindooly Castle3.8 kmHeadford Road
- 3.9 km
- Terryland Castle4.1 kmBóthar Na dTreabh
- 4.1 km
- 4.4 km
- 5.4 km
- 8.3 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/52323799, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.