Castles · Kinvarra

Dunguaire Castle

Name: Dunguaire Castle
Address: Kinvarra, County Galway, IE

Dunguaire Castle is a castle in the town in Kinvarra, County Galway, 940 m east of the quay.

Kind: Castles
From the quay: 940 m east
Read more: Dunguaire Castle on Wikipedia
Wheelchair: Not accessible
Parking: Castle Parking on Dunguaire Cottages, 229 m away

The map does not yet record a phone number or a website for Dunguaire Castle. Anyone can add them on OpenStreetMap; this page picks the change up at the next refresh.

The building in black is this one; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town

Plan of the surrounding 300 m

Dunguaire Castle in pictures

Getting to Dunguaire Castle

By car: Park at Castle Parking on Dunguaire Cottages, 229 m away, free. Kinvarra is 17 km from Galway city.
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

It is open on Sundays (10:00-16:30), which not every place in the town is.

Nothing else is named on the map within 300 m; the model shows the buildings around it.

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

The name begins with dún, the Irish for a stronghold of some importance, not always ring-shaped.

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.

Opening hours

Mon: 10:00-16:30
Tue: 10:00-16:30
Wed: 10:00-16:30
Thu: 10:00-16:30
Fri: 10:00-16:30
Sat: 10:00-16:30
Sun: 10:00-16:30

As recorded on OpenStreetMap on 2026-09-18; bank holidays may differ.

Other castles around Kinvarra

All 14 castles around Kinvarra

Questions people ask

Where is Dunguaire Castle?

In Kinvarra, County Galway, 940 m east of the quay; the nearest car park is 229 m away.

When is Dunguaire Castle open?

The map records Mo-Su 10:00-16:30. The table above shows it day by day, and the badge at the top says whether it is open at this moment.

Are there other castles nearby?

13 other castles around $Kinvarra; the closest is Cahererillan Castle, 3.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/110472519, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.