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Castle Attractions In Western Ireland

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The West Region is a NUTS Level III statistical region of the Republic of Ireland. It consists of the territory of the city of Galway and the counties of Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. The West region spans 13,801 km² and has a population of 380,057 . Prior to 2014, the region was governed by the West Regional Assembly. Statutory instrument No. 573/2014 abolished that assembly. Since that date, the association between Regional Assemblies and NUTS regions has ceased. The NUTS regions are used for statistical reporting to Eurostat, while the Regional Assemblies are responsible for planning at a local government level. The region is located on the western s...
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Castle Attractions In Western Ireland

  • 1. Ashford Castle Cong
    Ashford Castle is a medieval and Victorian castle that has been expanded over the centuries and turned into a five star luxury hotel near Cong on the Mayo-Galway border, on the shore of Lough Corrib in Ireland. It is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World organisation and was previously owned by the Guinness family.
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  • 2. Belleek Castle Museum Ballina
    Ballina is a town in north County Mayo, Ireland. It lies at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, in the Moy valley and Parish of Kilmoremoy, with the Ox Mountains to the east and the Nephin Beg mountains to the west. The town occupies two baronies; Tirawley on the west bank of the Moy River, and Tireragh, a barony within the County of Sligo, on its east banks. As of 2016, the population of Ballina was 10,171.
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  • 3. Parke's Castle Leitrim
    Parke’s Castle is a plantation era castle situated on the banks of Lough Gill, in County Leitrim, Ireland. Originally an earlier fifteenth-century O'Rourke castle, it came into the possession of Sir Roger Parke, who, by 1628, had completed his fortified manor house at the centre of the older Gaelic castle.
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  • 4. Clifden Castle Clifden
    Clifden Castle is a ruined manor house west of the town of Clifden in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland. It was built c. 1818 for John D'Arcy, the local landowner, in the Gothic Revival style. Uninhabited after 1894 it fell into disrepair. In 1935, ownership passed to a group of tenants, who were to own it jointly, and it quickly became a ruin.
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  • 8. Kildavnet Castle Achill Island
    Carrickkildavnet Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in Achill Island, Ireland.
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  • 9. Roscommon Castle Roscommon
    Roscommon is the county town of County Roscommon in Ireland. It is near the meeting of the N60, N61 and N63 roads, putting it roughly in the centre of Ireland. The name Roscommon is derived from Coman mac Faelchon who built a monastery there in the 5th century. The woods near the monastery became known as Ros Comáin . This was later anglicised to Roscommon. Its population at the 2016 census was 5,876. Despite the town itself having a relatively small population, it caters to a large fraction of the population of County Roscommon as Castlerea and Boyle are the only other major towns in the county.
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  • 11. Aughnanure Castle Oughterard
    Aughnanure Castle is a tower house in Oughterard, County Galway, Ireland.
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  • 12. Oranmore Castle Oranmore
    Oranmore is a village in County Galway on the outskirts of the city of Galway in the west of Ireland. With a number of housing developments, Oranmore is increasingly becoming a part of Galway's commuter or suburban belt. Oranmore is 9 km east of Galway City on the edge of Oranmore Bay, an inlet of Galway Bay.
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  • 14. Classiebawn Castle Mullaghmore
    Classiebawn Castle is a country house built for The 3rd Viscount Palmerston on what was formerly a 10,000-acre estate on the Mullaghmore peninsula near the village of Cliffoney, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland. The current castle was largely built in the late 19th century.
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  • 15. Menlo Castle / Blake's Castle Galway
    Menlo Castle is a 16th Century castle situated on the bank of the River Corrib in Co. Galway. It was built in 1569 and was home to the Blake family. The ruins still exist today close to the NUI Galway campus.
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