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List of castles in Ireland

This List of Castles in Ireland, be they in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) or in the Republic of Ireland, is organised by county within their respective jurisdiction.

Republic of Ireland

County Carlow

County Cavan

County Clare

County Cork

County Donegal

County Dublin

  • Archbold's Castle, Dalkey. Intact, private property. National monument.
  • Ardgillan Castle, Ardgillan Demesne, Balrothery
  • Artaine Castle, Artaine
  • Ashtown Castle, Phoenix Park.
  • Athgoe Castle, Newcastle, intact,
  • Ballyowen Castle, Lucan, ruins incorporated into the Ballyowen Castle Shopping Centre
  • Balrothery Castle, intact
  • Baymount Castle, Heronstown, Clontarf
  • Belgard Castle, Tallaght, HQ of CRH Holdings
  • Bremore Castle, Balbriggan, under repair
  • Bullock Castle
  • Carrickmines Castle, ruins, buried beneath recent road work
  • Castle Bagot, Kilmactalway, Newcastle, intact, health spa
  • Castle Mount, Clogh
  • Castle Park (Castle Perrin), Monkstown, intact,
  • Castleknock Castle
  • Cheeverstown
  • Clonskeagh Castle, Roebuck. 19th century, on site of earlier castle.
  • Clontarf Castle, Clontarf. Restored Castle, Hotel.
  • Conn Castle, intact
  • Corr Castle
  • Corrig Castle Dun Laoghaire, demolished.
  • Dalkey Castle, Dalkey. Intact, 14th century. National monument.
  • Donabate, intact
  • Drimnagh Castle, Drimnagh. Restored Castle.
  • Drumcondra Castle, Richmond. Conference centre
  • Dublin Castle, Dublin City. Restored Castle
  • Dundrum Castle, Dundrum. Ruins
  • Dunsoghly Castle, Restored Castle
  • Howth Castle, Howth.
  • Grange, intact?
  • Irishtown Castle, ruin
  • Kilgobbin Castle, ruin,
  • Killiney Castle, Scalpwilliam or Mount Mapas.
  • Killininny Castle, Firhouse
  • Kilsallaghan Castle
  • Knocklyne (Knocklyon) Castle, Knocklyon. Intact, private residence.
  • Lambay Castle, Lambay Island
  • Lanestown, intact
  • Lehaunstown or Laughanstown Castle, concealed within a later manor house.
  • Luttrellstown Castle, Restored Castle
  • Merrion Castle
  • Malahide Castle, Malahide Demesne. Restored castle
  • Merrion Castle, Merrion.
  • Monkstown Castle, Monkstown Castlefarm. Ruin
  • Murphystown, ruins, the proposed Luas line B1 runs approximately 28 m west of the ruins of Murphystown Castle and through its area of archaeological potential.
  • Nangor Castle, Nangor.
  • Portrane castle (Stella's Tower), intact
  • Puck's Castle, Shankill. Ruin
  • Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham Demesne. Restored Castle
  • Rathmines Castle, Rathmines West.
  • Robswall, intact
  • Roebuck Castle, Roebuck. Hall of residence UCD campus
  • Sarsfield Castle, intact
  • Shangannagh Castle, ruins, not to be confused with the late 18th-century house of the same name
  • Shankill Castle, Shankill, ruin
  • Simmonscourt Castle, Smotscourt
  • Stillorgan Castle, Stillorgan. 18th-century house on site of earlier castle, now incorporated into the modern St John of God hospital complex. NIAH survey
  • Swords Castle, castle ruins, undergoing restoration
  • Tallaght Castle, Tower House, incorporated into the buildings of St. Mary's Priory in Tallaght village
  • Templeogue House
  • Thorncastle
  • Tully's Castle, Clondalkin, ruins
  • Tymon Castle, Tymon North. Demolished in the 1970s
  • Williamstown Castle, Williamstown.

County Galway

County Kerry

County Kildare

County Kilkenny

County Laois

County Leitrim

County Limerick

County Longford

County Louth

County Mayo

County Meath

County Monaghan

County Offaly

County Roscommon

County Sligo

County Tipperary

County Waterford

County Westmeath

County Wexford

County Wicklow

  • Carnew Castle, Carnew. Tower house ruins, built in the late 16th century.
  • Castle Howard Wicklow, intact castle with the addition of a 19th-century Mansion.
  • Dunganstown Castle, Dunganstown. Remains of a large late-17th century U-plan house and early 17th-century tower.
  • Glenart Castle, Arklow. Intact castle in use as a hotel.
  • Fassaroe Castle, Bray. Built in 1536 by 'Master Tresover'. In ruins.
  • Kiltegan Castle, Kiltegan, intact castle
  • Kiltimon Castle, Newcastle. C.1550, now in use as a folly.
  • Kindlestown Castle, Delgany. Castle ruins
  • Oldcourt Castle, Bray. Built by the Earl of Ormond in 1433. In ruins.
  • Ormonde Castle, Arklow. Castle ruins, built in 1169 on an old Viking site and destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's army in the 17th century.
  • Rathdown Castle. Ruined by the 17th century, very little remains.
  • Threecastles Castle, Manor Kilbride, Blessington. Largely intact late 14th/15th-century castle marking the boundary of the Pale.
  • The Black Castle, Wicklow Town (now ruins). In 834 AD the Vikings fortified a strategic rocky promontory at the mouth of the Vartry River in Wicklow Town. Following the Norman invasion a castle was subsequently built, now known as the Black Castle. Between 1295 and 1315 the castle was attacked and burnt down twice by the local O'Byrne Clan.

Northern Ireland

County Antrim

County Armagh

County Down

County Fermanagh

County Londonderry

County Tyrone

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