154 castles recorded, 5 with a full guide, 2 bookable as castle hotels.
A 12th-century-founded castle turned 4-star hotel inside the city of Dublin, with a colourful past as a cabaret venue before its 1990s hotel conversion.
A 20-bedroom private-hire castle with a centuries-deep guest list including royalty and film stars; accommodation is exclusive-use, booked with the whole castle.
Home to the Talbot family for almost 800 years (1185-1976), it is one of Ireland's oldest castles and set in a 260-acre demesne.
Built in 1583 by Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, it combines a defensible Elizabethan corner-towered house with lavish 18th-century Georgian interiors by James 'Athenian' Stuart.
Founded between 1169 and 1216 by the Norman knight Hugh de Bernival (Barnewall), it is the only castle in Ireland still surrounded by a working flooded moat.
Built from 1204 on the orders of King John on the site of a Viking settlement, it served as the seat of English and British rule in Ireland for over 700 years.
Built around 1200 as a manorial residence for the Archbishops of Dublin, it is one of the earliest and largest Anglo-Norman castles in the country, enclosing over an acre within its walls.
Sourced from the National Monuments Service Sites and Monuments Record — ruins, tower houses and earthworks alongside the famous names.