Skip to content
GalwayOnFoot.ieRosscahill
Ruins · near Rosscahill

Ballycurrin Lighthouse

Ballycurrin Lighthouse is a ruin in the countryside 11.1 km north of Rosscahill, County Galway.

Kind
Ruins
From Rosscahill
11.1 km north

The map does not yet record a phone number, a website or opening hours for Ballycurrin Lighthouse. Anyone can add them on OpenStreetMap; this page picks the change up at the next refresh.

Plan of the country around Ballycurrin Lighthouse, 1.8 km across
The marker is this place; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town

Getting to Ballycurrin Lighthouse

From the town
11.1 km north of the crossroads 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: Ballycurrin Castle (263 m) and Otter Island (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.

Other ruins around Rosscahill

  1. 6.7 km
  2. 6.7 km
  3. 6.8 km
  4. 6.9 km

All 5 ruins around Rosscahill

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycurrin Lighthouse?
In County Galway, 11.1 km north of Rosscahill.
Are there other ruins nearby?
4 other ruins around $Rosscahill; the closest is Deserted Village, 6.7 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/697437659, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.