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Ruins · near Gort

Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins)

Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins) is a ruin in the countryside 8.8 km south-west of Gort, County Galway.

Kind
Ruins
From Gort
8.8 km south-west

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Plan of the country around Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins), 1.8 km across
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Getting to Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins)

From the town
8.8 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: Curtaun Lough (1.2 km), Lough Aslaun (1.3 km), Scarriff Lough (1.3 km), Derryowen Castle (1.3 km) and Lough Doo (1.4 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.

Questions people ask

Where is Tubber RIC Barracks (Ruins)?
In County Galway, 8.8 km south-west of Gort.
Are there other ruins nearby?
12 other ruins around $Gort; the closest is Derryowen Castle, 1.3 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/296104047, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.