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Castles in County Cavan

3 castles, from Norman keeps to the tower houses that Gaelic and Anglo-Irish families raised in their hundreds — and the ones that are now four walls and a jackdaw.

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The castles

Bailieborough Castle

Castle house 53.929, -6.991 Wikipedia ↗ Show on a map ↗

Bailieborough Castle was located in Bailieborough, County Cavan, Ireland. It was built in an enclosed demesne by 1629. Also known as Castle House, Lisgar House, or simply 'The Castle', the country house was located just to the south-west of Castle Lough in what is now known as Bailieborough Demesne, on the north-western edge of the town.

Cabra Castle, County Cavan
Photograph: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Cabra Castle

Castle house 53.914, -6.774 Wikipedia ↗ Show on a map ↗

Cabra Castle is the name given to two castles, one now ruined, the other now used as a luxury hotel. Named for the nearby townland of Cabra, the sites of both structures are on the northside of Kingscourt in County Cavan, Ireland.

Castle Saunderson, County Cavan
Photograph: C.A.Saunderson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Castle Saunderson

Ruin 54.125, -7.352 Wikipedia ↗ Show on a map ↗

Castle Saunderson (Irish: Caisleán Shandarsan) is a castle near Belturbet in County Cavan, Ireland. It was the former family seat of the Saunderson family, and is now in ruins. The Finn River flows along the north-eastern edge of the Castle Saunderson Demesne, where the river enters a narrow channel of Upper Lough Erne.

Descriptions are Wikipedia's own opening lines, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 with a link to each article; the list and the coordinates come from the same place. Nothing here is a guide to access — many of these are private homes or stand in private fields.

Older than the castles

What stood in Cavan before anybody thought of building a keep.

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