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The complete guide to Ireland's castles — 4,802 recorded, 32 counties — and every real castle hotel worth booking, from Ashford to Dromoland. Each guide points you to its nearest castle stay.

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33Castle hotels, Ireland

4,802Castles catalogued

32Counties covered

4Nations in the guide

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5-star / luxury

Co. Mayo

Ashford Castle

Medieval castle founded by the Anglo-Norman de Burgo (Burke) family in 1228, later held by the Guinness family from 1852, converted into a hotel in 1939.

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5-star / luxury

Co. Clare

Dromoland Castle

16th-century-origin castle, ancestral seat of the O'Briens of Dromoland (descended from Brian Boru), rebuilt after the family submitted to Henry VIII.

Newmarket-on-FergusView stay →

4-star

Co. Cavan

Cabra Castle

Built in 1795 on the site of an earlier round-tower castle (Cormey Castle), constructed in a mix of neo-Norman and Gothick styles.

KingscourtView stay →

4-star

Co. Dublin

Site of a castle built in 1172 by the Norman Hugh de Lacy near the site of the 1014 Battle of Clontarf; the present building is a Victorian reconstruction dating to 1837 designed by William Vitruvius Morrison.

Clontarf, DublinView stay →

Thousands of years, one county at a time

The Complete Guide to Irish Castles

Every notable castle in Ireland gets its own long-read — history, why it matters, and the nearest castle hotel to base yourself in.

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15thc.

Co. Clare

Bunratty Castle

The present castle, likely built by the MacNamaras and completed around 1450, became the chief seat of the O'Brien clan from around 1500.

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16thc.

Co. Clare

Newtown Castle

Built around 1550 for the O'Brien clan, Newtown is architecturally unusual: a cylindrical tower rising from a square pyramidal base, a design shared by only around 30 of Ireland's roughly 3,000 tower houses.

Nearest stay: Dromoland CastleRead the guide →

1480

Co. Clare

Leamaneh Castle (in ruins)

Built by the O'Brien clan on the edge of the Burren, the five-storey tower house was extended around 1648 by the formidable Máire Rua O'Brien and her husband Conor, who added a fortified manor house.

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15thc.

Co. Clare

Knappogue Castle

Built in 1467 by Seán Mac Conmara, Knappogue became the seat of the MacNamara sept and, remarkably, remained continuously inhabited or maintained for over five centuries.

Nearest stay: Dromoland CastleRead the guide →

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