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Gort Castle

Gort Castle is a ringforts and site on Gort River Walk in Gort, County Galway, 162 m east of the Square. Aldi, Stables and Mahon's Garage are within 84 m.

Kind
Ringforts and sites
Street
Gort River Walk
From the Square
162 m east
Bus stop
Stop, 130 m away

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Plan of the streets around Gort Castle, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Gort Castle, 340 metres across

Getting to Gort Castle

By bus
The nearest stop is an unnamed stop, 130 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

8 places to eat and drink within 300 m: O'Donnells (110 m), Harte's (127 m), Supermac's (134 m) and Brazza (144 m) and more.

3 shops within 300 m, including Aldi, Centra and Lidl.

Other sites within 3 km: Stables (82 m), Canon Quinn Park (197 m), Spring Well (492 m), Ballynamantan Lough (1.9 km) and Pollduagh (2.0 km).

What a ringfort is

The countryside around Tuam is dotted with ringforts, and there is nothing unusual in that: Ireland has more than 40,000 of them on record and probably had 50,000 once, about one in every two square kilometres, though ploughing and building have flattened many. They are small round enclosures, some of stone, most of banked earth with a ditch outside and once a wooden palisade on top, built from the Bronze Age through to about the year 1000 as the fenced yards of farmsteads. One or more houses stood inside.

The Irish names tell you what kind you are looking at. A ráth is the earthen bank, a lios the open space it encloses, so a place beginning Lis- or Rath- was an earthen fort; cathair, anglicised caher, is a stone-walled one; dún is a stronghold of some standing and need not be round at all. Many of the sites below survived because they were left alone as fairy forts, and many more were found on the first Ordnance Survey maps, from the air, or in the digging that comes before a new road.

Written from Wikipedia, "Ringfort" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.

Within a short walk

  1. Aldi
    Supermarkets
    60 m
  2. Stables
    Ruins
    82 m
  3. 84 m
  4. Gort Garda Station
    Garda station
    86 m
  5. 110 m
  6. AIB
    Banks
    127 m
  7. 127 m
  8. Supermac's
    Takeaways
    134 m

Other ringforts and sites around Gort

  1. 4.7 km
  2. 5.4 km
  3. 11.0 km
  4. 11.4 km
  5. 12.1 km

All 6 ringforts and sites around Gort

Questions people ask

Where is Gort Castle?
On Gort River Walk in Gort, 162 m east of the Square.
Are there other ringforts and sites nearby?
5 other ringforts and sites around $Gort; the closest is Dermot & Grania's Bed, 4.7 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/9656325345, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.