Caher Castle
Caher Castle is a castle in the countryside 9.4 km north-west of Loughrea, County Galway. Pete’s Castle is within 159 m.
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- Castles
- From Loughrea
- 9.4 km north-west
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- Caher Castle on Wikipedia
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Getting to Caher Castle
- From the town
- 9.4 km north-west of the centre 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: Pete’s Castle (159 m), 1421NWK022 Spring (1.6 km), Riverville Castle (ruins) (2.1 km) and Moyode Castle (2.2 km).
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.
Within a short walk
- Pete’s Castle159 mCastles
Other castles around Loughrea
- 159 m
- 2.1 km
- 2.2 km
- 3.1 km
- 3.4 km
- 3.6 km
- 3.8 km
- 4.4 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1026329674, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.