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Headford Castle

Headford Castle is a castle in the town in Headford, County Galway, 521 m east of the centre. Keadys Supermarket and Bank of Ireland are within 233 m.

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Castles
From the centre
521 m east
Bus stop
Headford, 468 m away

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Plan of the streets around Headford Castle, 340 metres across
The building in black is this one; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town
Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Headford Castle, 340 metres across

Getting to Headford Castle

By bus
The nearest stop is Headford, 468 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

1 shop within 300 m, including Keadys Supermarket.

Other sites within 3 km: Caherachoola (1.7 km), Lisheennabasty (1.9 km), Lough Turrae (1.9 km), Cloghanower Castle (ruins) (2.0 km) and Lisheen (2.2 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

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.

Within a short walk

  1. Keadys Supermarket
    Supermarkets
    213 m
  2. 233 m

Other castles around Headford

  1. 2.0 km
  2. 2.7 km
  3. 3.6 km
  4. 5.8 km
  5. 6.0 km
  6. 6.9 km
  7. 7.7 km
  8. 7.9 km

All 12 castles around Headford

Questions people ask

Where is Headford Castle?
In Headford, County Galway, 521 m east of the centre.
Are there other castles nearby?
11 other castles around $Headford; the closest is Cloghanower Castle (ruins), 2.0 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1370077158, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.