Castles · near Gort

Dunguaire Castle

Name: Dunguaire Castle
Address: Gort, County Galway, IE

Dunguaire Castle is a castle in the countryside 11.0 km north-west of Gort, County Galway.

Kind: Castles
From Gort: 11.0 km north-west
Read more: Dunguaire Castle on Wikipedia
Wheelchair: Not accessible

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Getting to Dunguaire Castle

From the town: 11.0 km north-west of the Square in a straight line; it is out in the country, so allow for the roads.
Directions from where you are: Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

Around it

It is open on Sundays (10:00-16:30), which not every place in the town is.

Nothing else is named on the map within 300 m; the model shows the buildings around it.

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

The name begins with dún, the Irish for a stronghold of some importance, not always ring-shaped.

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.

Opening hours

Mon: 10:00-16:30
Tue: 10:00-16:30
Wed: 10:00-16:30
Thu: 10:00-16:30
Fri: 10:00-16:30
Sat: 10:00-16:30
Sun: 10:00-16:30

As recorded on OpenStreetMap on 2026-09-18; bank holidays may differ.

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Questions people ask

Where is Dunguaire Castle?

In County Galway, 11.0 km north-west of Gort.

When is Dunguaire Castle open?

The map records Mo-Su 10:00-16:30. The table above shows it day by day, and the badge at the top says whether it is open at this moment.

Are there other castles nearby?

13 other castles around $Gort; the closest is Cahererillan Castle, 3.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/110472519, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.