Doonbeg Fort
Doonbeg Fort is a ruin in the countryside 10.5 km north-east of Lackagh, County Galway.
- Kind
- Ruins
- From Lackagh
- 10.5 km north-east
The map does not yet record a phone number, a website or opening hours for Doonbeg Fort. Anyone can add them on OpenStreetMap; this page picks the change up at the next refresh.
Getting to Doonbeg Fort
- From the town
- 10.5 km north-east of the church in a straight line; it is out in the country, so allow for the roads.
- Directions from where you are
- Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.
Around it
Other sites within 3 km: Ballinderry Castle (1.6 km), Rathmore (2.1 km) and Ballynapark (2.5 km).
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.
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.
Other ruins around Lackagh
- 4.2 km
- 10.3 km
- 16.0 km
- 21.5 km
- 21.5 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1391797275, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.