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Ruins · near Loughrea

Killogilleen Church (ruins)

Killogilleen Church (ruins) is a ruin in the countryside 9.0 km west of Loughrea, County Galway.

Kind
Ruins
From Loughrea
9.0 km west

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Plan of the country around Killogilleen Church (ruins), 1.8 km across
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Getting to Killogilleen Church (ruins)

From the town
9.0 km west of the centre 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: Cregg Castle (ruins) (663 m), Lough Kinlea (895 m), Creggowny Fort (1.3 km), Dermot & Grania's Bed (1.4 km) and Carnanthomas (1.9 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 Killogilleen Church (ruins)?
In County Galway, 9.0 km west of Loughrea.
Are there other ruins nearby?
20 other ruins around $Loughrea; the closest is Cregg Castle (ruins), 663 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1305921479, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.