Carrickabraghy Castle
Carrickabraghy Castle on a rocky outcrop at the north-western extremity of the Isle of Doagh, at the head of Pollan Bay, in the north of Inishowen, a peninsula on the north coast of County Donegal, Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: town in Ulster, Ireland
- Also known as: “O’Doherty Castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Glashedy and Ballyliffin Golf Club.
Glashedy
Islet
Photo: Lynchboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glashedy Island is an uninhabited island approximately 1 mile off Pollan strand, 2 miles west of Trawbreaga Bay, and about 4 miles south of Malin Head, Donegal, Ireland.
Ballyliffin Golf Club
Building
Ballyliffin Golf Club is a golf club located in Ballyliffin, County Donegal, Ireland. Ballyliffin Golf Club is situated 2½ km south of Carrickabraghy Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballyliffin and Clonmany.
Ballyliffin
Village
Carndonagh is a market town on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal. With a population of less than 2800 in 2022, it's the largest settlement in the north of the peninsula, which ends at Malin Head the most northerly point on the Irish mainland. Ballyliffin is situated 4 km south of Carrickabraghy Castle.
Clonmany
Village
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clonmany is a village and civil parish in north-west Inishowen, in County Donegal, Ireland. The Urris valley to the west of Clonmany village was the last outpost of the Irish language in Inishowen. Clonmany is situated 6 km southwest of Carrickabraghy Castle.
Malin Head
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Malin Head is the most northerly point of mainland Ireland, located in the townland of Ardmalin on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal. The head's northernmost point is called Dunalderagh at latitude 55.38ºN. Malin Head is situated 7 km north of Carrickabraghy Castle.
Carrickabraghy Castle
- Categories: townland, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: County Donegal, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.31633° or 55° 18′ 59″ northLongitude
-7.37275° or 7° 22′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C7J8J8G+GVOpenStreetMap ID
way 492070295OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q3644626
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Carrickabraghy Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Carrickabraghy gaztelua”
- French: “Caisleán Charraig Bhrachaí”
- German: “Carrickabraghy Castle”
- Irish: “Caisleán Charraig Bhrachaí”
- Irish: “Carraig Bhrachaí”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caisleán Charraig Bhrachaí”
- Spanish: “Caisleán Charraig Bhrachaí”
- Turkish: “Carrickabraghy Castle”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Керрікебрейгі”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Five Finger Strand and Dough Famine Village.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carrickabraghy Castle”. Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.