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Ruins · near Roundstone

Ard Castle

Ard Castle is a ruin in the countryside 9.4 km south of Roundstone, County Galway. Lough Nafaha is within 220 m.

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From Roundstone
9.4 km south

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Plan of the country around Ard Castle, 1.8 km across
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Getting to Ard Castle

From the town
9.4 km south of the harbour 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 Nafaha (221 m), Lough Nageeron (412 m), Lough Shemus (629 m), Loch Bhun na Cluife (1.6 km) and Mill Lough (1.9 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. 220 m

Other ruins around Roundstone

  1. 3.2 km
  2. 8.9 km
  3. 9.0 km
  4. 9.3 km
  5. 12.8 km
  6. 17.6 km

All 7 ruins around Roundstone

Questions people ask

Where is Ard Castle?
In County Galway, 9.4 km south of Roundstone.
Are there other ruins nearby?
6 other ruins around $Roundstone; the closest is Penitential Station, 3.2 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/4312325692, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.