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Cahererillan Castle

Cahererillan Castle is a castle in the countryside 11.9 km south-west of Kilcolgan, County Galway.

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11.9 km south-west

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

From the town
11.9 km south-west of the bridge 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

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Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

The name begins with cathair, the Irish for a stone-walled ringfort, so its walls were built of stone rather than banked earth.

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.

Other castles around Kilcolgan

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  4. 8.2 km
  5. 10.5 km
  6. 14.0 km
  7. 15.6 km
  8. 15.6 km

All 16 castles around Kilcolgan

Questions people ask

Where is Cahererillan Castle?
In County Galway, 11.9 km south-west of Kilcolgan.
Are there other castles nearby?
15 other castles around $Kilcolgan; the closest is Dunguaire Castle, 3.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/768586140, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.