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Derryowen Castle

Derryowen Castle is a ruin in the countryside 8.9 km south-west of Gort, County Galway.

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Ruins
From Gort
8.9 km south-west

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Plan of the country around Derryowen Castle, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Derryowen Castle

From the town
8.9 km south-west of the Square in a straight line; it is out in the country, so allow for the roads.
Directions from where you are
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Around it

Other sites within 3 km: Templebannagh Lough (Little) (380 m), Templebannagh Lough (912 m), Ballinlisheen Lough (1.1 km), Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins) (1.3 km) and Lough Doo (1.6 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.

Other ruins around Gort

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  3. 6.2 km
  4. 7.8 km
  5. 9.0 km
  6. 9.0 km
  7. 9.0 km
  8. 10.6 km

All 13 ruins around Gort

Questions people ask

Where is Derryowen Castle?
In County Galway, 8.9 km south-west of Gort.
Are there other ruins nearby?
12 other ruins around $Gort; the closest is Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins), 1.3 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/3451754713, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.