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Ruins · near Oranmore

Old Fort

Old Fort is a ruin in the countryside 6.9 km west of Oranmore, County Galway. Dead Mans Beach is within 73 m.

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Ruins
From Oranmore
6.9 km west

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Plan of the country around Old Fort, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Old Fort

From the town
6.9 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: Lough Atalia (713 m), Saint Augustine's Well (961 m), Seán Duggan (1.1 km), Magdalene Laundry (1.2 km) and City Walls (1.3 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

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.

Within a short walk

  1. 73 m

Other ruins around Oranmore

  1. 1.6 km
  2. 3.0 km
  3. 3.6 km
  4. 3.9 km
  5. 4.4 km
  6. 4.5 km
  7. 4.7 km
  8. 5.1 km

All 13 ruins around Oranmore

Questions people ask

Where is Old Fort?
In County Galway, 6.9 km west of Oranmore.
Are there other ruins nearby?
12 other ruins around $Oranmore; the closest is Saint James' Church, 1.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/796492764, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.