Kilbought Convent
Kilbought Convent is a ruin in the countryside 5.7 km north-east of Loughrea, County Galway.
- Kind
- Ruins
- From Loughrea
- 5.7 km north-east
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Getting to Kilbought Convent
- From the town
- 5.7 km north-east 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: Turlough (976 m), Lismore (1.2 km), Dartfield Horse Museum (1.2 km), r (1.4 km) and Ballybroder Castle (1.8 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.
Other ruins around Loughrea
- 3.8 km
- 4.1 km
- 4.1 km
- 5.4 km
- Saint Mary’s Abbey5.6 kmThe Walks
- 6.2 km
- 6.3 km
- 6.6 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1306693450, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.