Athenry Castle
Athenry Castle is a castle in the countryside 8.8 km south of Monivea, County Galway. The Twelve Apostles, Heritage Center and Athenry Abbey are within 202 m.
- Kind
- Castles
- From Monivea
- 8.8 km south
- Website
- heritageireland.ie
- Run by
- Office of Public Works
- Read more
- Athenry Castle on Wikipedia
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Getting to Athenry Castle
- From the town
- 8.8 km south of the green 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: The Twelve Apostles (107 m), Heritage Center (124 m), Rathacugga (1.8 km), Church (ruins) (2.1 km) and Kilcornan Lost Village (2.6 km).
Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside
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
- The Twelve Apostles107 mMonuments
- Heritage Center124 mMuseums
- Athenry Abbey202 mHistoric churches
- North-West Tower241 mTowers
Other castles around Monivea
- 4.3 km
- 5.7 km
- 7.7 km
- 9.6 km
- 10.9 km
- 11.3 km
- 11.3 km
- 13.5 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/182944517, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.