Ballyloughan Castle

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Ballyloughan Castle is a ruined castle and National Monument in County Carlow near Bagenalstown. A twin-towered gatehouse, the hall and foundations of one of the corner towers, dating to about 1300 remain. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 52°50'12"N, 6°46'26"W

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Ballyloughan Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tullow Museum, Brownshill Dolmen, Duckett's Grove, Castledermot Abbey.

2.8 miSE
History museum, Museum
Tullow Museum, Tullow
72 min walk • Tullow Museum is a local museum in Tullow, County Carlow in Ireland. It documents the history of Tullow town and surrounding area.
4.5 miW
Monuments and statues, Archaeological site
Brownshill Dolmen, Carlow
115 min walk • Brownshill Dolmen is a very large megalithic portal tomb situated 3 km east of Carlow, in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs an estimated 150 metric tons, and is reputed to be the heaviest in Europe. The tomb is listed as a National Monument.
2.2 miNW
Historical place, Garden, Reportedly haunted
Duckett's Grove, Carlow
56 min walk • Duckett's Grove is a ruined 19th-century great house and former estate in County Carlow, Ireland. Belonging to the Duckett family, the house was formerly the focal point of a 12,000-acre estate, and dominated the local landscape of the area for more than two centuries.
5.6 miNW
Archaeological site, Gothic architecture
Castledermot Abbey, Castledermot
144 min walk • Castledermot Abbey is a ruined Franciscan friary in Castledermot, County Kildare, in the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in about the year 1300.
5.2 miSE
Forts and castles
Rathgall Hillfort
133 min walk • Rathgall, or the Ring of the Rath is a large multivallate hill fort near the town of Shillelagh. Dating from the Bronze Age, it consists of three roughly concentric stone ramparts with a fourth masonry wall dating from the Medieval period at its centre.
5.7 miNW
Observation decks and towers, Forts and castles, Tower
Castledermot Round Tower, Castledermot
146 min walk • Castledermot Round Tower is a 10th-century round tower in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. The tower, and the high crosses nearby, are a National Monument.
6 miNW
Tower
Saint John's Tower, Castledermot
152 min walk • Saint John's Tower, also called the Pigeon Tower, is a tower in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. A former bell tower, it is all that remains of a medieval leper hospital and is a National Monument.
5 miNE
Archaeological site
Rathvilly Moat, Rathvilly
128 min walk • Rathvilly Moat is a motte and National Monument located in County Carlow, Ireland.
1.9 miS
Archaeological site
Castlemore Moat
49 min walk • Castlemore Moat is a motte-and-bailey and National Monument in County Carlow, Ireland.
2.7 miSW
Archaeological site
Baunogenasraid
69 min walk • Baunogenasraid is an archaeological site and National Monument in County Carlow. The site was excavated in 1972 and discovered to contain a single neolithic burial mound which was expanded into a small cemetery in the early Bronze Age.
4.7 miS
Memorial
Aghade Holed Stone
121 min walk • Aghade Holed Stone or Cloghaphoill is a large holed stone and Irish National Monument located in Aghade, County Carlow, Ireland.