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Gate House

Gate House is a castle in the town in Portumna, County Galway, 508 m south of the centre. Portumna Castle and Gardens, Portumna GAA Club and Portumna Castle are within 159 m.

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Castles
From the centre
508 m south
Parking
SuperValu Car Park, 650 m away
Bus stop
Portumna, 391 m away

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Plan of the streets around Gate House, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Gate House, 340 metres across

Getting to Gate House

By car
Park at SuperValu Car Park, 650 m away. Portumna is 59 km from Galway city.
By bus
The nearest stop is Portumna, 391 m away.
Directions from where you are
Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

While you are there

1 place to eat or drink within 300 m: Portumna Castle Tea Room (169 m).

Other sites within 3 km: Portumna Castle and Gardens (72 m), Portumna Castle (159 m), Portumna Friary (306 m), Spindillaun (700 m) and Roach Island (730 m).

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

  1. 72 m
  2. Portumna GAA Club
    Sports centres
    145 m
  3. 159 m
  4. 169 m
  5. 231 m
  6. 236 m

Other castles around Portumna

  1. 159 m
  2. 3.2 km
  3. 4.8 km
  4. 6.2 km
  5. 6.3 km
  6. 6.4 km
  7. 8.2 km
  8. 9.1 km

All 14 castles around Portumna

Questions people ask

Where is Gate House?
In Portumna, County Galway, 508 m south of the centre; the nearest car park is 650 m away.
Are there other castles nearby?
13 other castles around $Portumna; the closest is Portumna Castle, 159 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/937773482, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.