Doonbeg Fort
Doonbeg Fort is a ruin in the countryside 7.1 km south of Tuam, County Galway.
- Kind
- Ruins
- From Tuam
- 7.1 km south
The map does not yet record a phone number, a website or opening hours for Doonbeg Fort. Anyone can add them on OpenStreetMap; this page picks the change up at the next refresh.
Getting to Doonbeg Fort
- From the town
- 7.1 km south of the Square 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: Ballinderry Castle (1.6 km), Rathmore (2.1 km), Cloonlusk Fort (2.4 km) and Ballynapark (2.6 km).
Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside
The name begins with dún, the Irish for a stronghold of some importance, not always ring-shaped.
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 Tuam
- 4.2 km
- 5.1 km
- 15.9 km
- 16.0 km
- 18.9 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1391797275, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.