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Old Fort

Old Fort is a ruin in the town in Galway, County Galway, 1.3 km south-east of Eyre Square. Mellows Pitch & Putt and Dead Mans Beach are within 73 m.

Kind
Ruins
From Eyre Square
1.3 km south-east
Bus stop
Galway Army Barracks (Bus Éireann), 607 m away

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Plan of the streets around Old Fort, 340 metres 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 streets around Old Fort, 340 metres across

Getting to Old Fort

By bus
The nearest stop is Galway Army Barracks, served by Bus Éireann, 607 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

Other sites within 3 km: Lough Atalia (713 m), Saint Augustine's Well (961 m), Seán Duggan (1.1 km), Magdalene Laundry (1.2 km) and City Walls (1.3 km).

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.

Within a short walk

  1. 41 m
  2. 73 m

Other ruins around Galway

  1. 1.6 km
  2. 3.0 km
  3. 3.6 km
  4. 3.9 km
  5. 4.4 km
  6. Famine cottages
    Bóthar an Choiléir
    4.5 km
  7. 4.7 km
  8. 5.1 km

All 12 ruins around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Old Fort?
In Galway, County Galway, 1.3 km south-east of Eyre Square.
Are there other ruins nearby?
11 other ruins around $Galway; the closest is Saint James' Church, 1.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/796492764, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.