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Ruins · near Kilreekil

Kilcooly Church

Kilcooly Church is a ruin in the countryside 3.5 km south of Kilreekil, County Galway. Church (ruins) is within 9 m.

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Ruins
From Kilreekil
3.5 km south

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Plan of the country around Kilcooly Church, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Kilcooly Church

From the town
3.5 km south of the church 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: Church (ruins) (9 m), Kilcooly Castle (571 m), Tobermacdruagh (1.3 km), Lissaniska (2.6 km) and Lisnactoba (2.8 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.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilcooly Church?
In County Galway, 3.5 km south of Kilreekil.
Are there other ruins nearby?
13 other ruins around $Kilreekil; the closest is Church (ruins), 9 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1306693458, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.