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Gate House

Gate House is a castle in the countryside 9.7 km south-east of Killimor, County Galway. Portumna Castle and Gardens and Portumna Castle are within 159 m.

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From Killimor
9.7 km south-east

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Plan of the country around Gate House, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Gate House

From the town
9.7 km south-east of Main Street 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: Portumna Castle and Gardens (72 m), Portumna Castle (159 m), Portumna Friary (306 m), Spindillaun (700 m) and Roach Island (730 m).

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. 72 m
  2. 159 m

Other castles around Killimor

  1. 159 m
  2. 4.8 km
  3. 8.2 km
  4. 10.3 km
  5. 10.7 km
  6. 14.3 km

All 7 castles around Killimor

Questions people ask

Where is Gate House?
In County Galway, 9.7 km south-east of Killimor.
Are there other castles nearby?
6 other castles around $Killimor; the closest is Portumna Castle, 159 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/937773482, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.