Clifden Castle
Clifden Castle is a ruined manor house west of the town of Clifden in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland. It was built c. 1818 for John D'Arcy, the local landowner, in the Gothic Revival style.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Drow69, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Letterdeen Standing Stone and Clifden Lifeboat Station.
Letterdeen Standing Stone
Archaeological site
Photo: Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Letterdeen Standing Stone is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 km northeast of Clifden Castle.
Clifden Lifeboat Station
Ruins
Clifden Lifeboat Station is located on The Quay at Clifden, a town on the northern shore of the Owenglin River, where it runs into Clifden Bay, in the Connemara region of County Galway, on the east coast of Ireland. Clifden Lifeboat Station is situated 2 km east of Clifden Castle.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Christ Church is situated 2 km east of Clifden Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clifden and Ballyconneely.
Clifden
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, Public domain.
Clifden is a small town on the northwest coast of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It grew up as a harbour and market town, then after the Famine became a coast resort with its present Victorian architecture.
Ballyconneely
Village
Photo: Hugh Chevallier, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballyconneely is a village and small ribbon development in west Connemara, County Galway Ireland.… Ballyconneely is situated 7 km south of Clifden Castle.
Cleggan
Village
Photo: Baronplantagenet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cleggan is a fishing village in County Galway, Ireland. The village lies 10 km northwest of Clifden and is situated at the head of Cleggan Bay. A focal point of the village is the pier, built by Alexander Nimmo in 1822 and extended in 1908. Cleggan is situated 8 km northwest of Clifden Castle.
Clifden Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: Castle in County Galway, Ireland
- Categories: architectural structure, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.49178° or 53° 29′ 30″ northLongitude
-10.0567° or 10° 3′ 24″ westElevation
69 metres (226 feet)Open location code
9C5FFWRV+P8OpenStreetMap ID
way 275514264OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
2965447Wikidata ID
Q5132502
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Clifden Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Clifden gaztelua”
- Danish: “Clifden Castle”
- French: “Clifden Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Clifden”
- Russian: “Замок Клифден”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Кліфден”
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