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Kilkeedy Castle

Kilkeedy Castle is a ruin in the countryside 10.6 km south-west of Gort, County Galway.

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From Gort
10.6 km south-west

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

From the town
10.6 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: Rockforest Lough (1.3 km), Templebannagh Lough (1.6 km), Ballinlisheen Lough (1.7 km), Lough Bunny (1.9 km) and Lough Aweddy (1.9 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

The name begins with cill, the Irish for a church, which usually marks an early church site.

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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  2. 3.4 km
  3. 7.2 km
  4. 7.5 km
  5. 10.1 km
  6. 10.7 km
  7. 11.0 km
  8. 11.0 km

All 13 ruins around Gort

Questions people ask

Where is Kilkeedy Castle?
In County Galway, 10.6 km south-west of Gort.
Are there other ruins nearby?
12 other ruins around $Gort; the closest is Derryowen Castle, 2.2 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/3451764016, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.