94 castles recorded, 6 with a full guide, 2 bookable as castle hotels.
A genuine medieval-founded castle with 15 bedrooms, offered fully staffed and catered on an exclusive-hire basis overlooking the Blackwater river.
The only Irish castle hotel located on its own private island, with a genuine medieval keep at its core alongside 14 antique-furnished castle suites.
Established by Prince John in 1185 at the mouth of the Colligan River, this polygonal shell keep with corner and gate towers guarded the entrance to Dungarvan town.
Built in 1185 by Prince John on the site of an earlier monastery, Lismore later passed through owners including Sir Walter Raleigh and Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, before the Cavendish family (Dukes of Devonshire) acquired it in 1753.
Believed to stand on the site of a former Viking stronghold, Ballygunner combines surviving medieval and 17th-century fabric with later Georgian and Victorian alterations.
Built by the Anglo-Normans on the site of an earlier Viking fortification, Reginald's Tower is reputed to be the oldest urban civic building in Ireland still in continuous use, having served as mint, prison and military store over 800 years.
Held by the Fitzgerald family for centuries on Little Island in the River Suir, the medieval tower house was absorbed into a new Gothic-style mansion built in 1895 for Gerald Purcell-Fitzgerald.
Sourced from the National Monuments Service Sites and Monuments Record — ruins, tower houses and earthworks alongside the famous names.