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Drishane Castle
Castle · near Millstreet · Cork

Drishane Castle

Drishane Castle is a macCarthy tower house and National Monument located in County Cork. You will find it 700 m north of Millstreet. Look also at Kanturk Castle, 14 km away, first of 2 more within 15 km.

Photo: Drishane Castle, Mike Searle (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Where
700 m
north of Millstreet
How well known
Top 16%
#273 of 1,783 places we list
Warmest months
Jun–Sep
highs of 17–19°C
In brief

Castle near Millstreet

Just outside Millstreet

Drishane Castle is 700 m north of Millstreet. Towns near it ↓

Written from Fáilte Ireland’s open data, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and the CSO’s 2022 town outlines, with Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather by the month

From June to September, Millstreet sees highs of 17–19°C.

Jan9° / 3°178 mm
Feb9° / 3°135 mm
Mar11° / 3°110 mm
Apr13° / 5°103 mm
May16° / 7°87 mm
Jun18° / 10°81 mm
Jul19° / 11°84 mm
Aug19° / 11°93 mm
Sep17° / 10°104 mm
Oct14° / 7°153 mm
Nov11° / 5°173 mm
Dec9° / 3°178 mm
Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Millstreet, and rain in a month. Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages for Millstreet (Copyright Met Éireann, CC BY 4.0). Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Millstreet’s full climate →
About

Drishane Castle

5 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Drishane Castle on Wikipedia ↗

Type
Castle
Wikipedias
Covered in 5 languages
Town
700 m north of Millstreet
Facts: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
The map

The way to Drishane Castle

Orange shows Drishane Castle; numbers mark the places near it.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors · CSO 2022 outline

Towns near it

Where people come from

Of these 8 towns, the largest is Kanturk (2,803 people). Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

12345678
  1. 1Millstreet
  2. 2Rathcoole
  3. 3Boherbue
  4. 4Rathmore
  5. 5Banteer
  6. 6Knocknagree
  7. 7Lyre
  8. 8Kanturk
1 · 700 m south of it

Millstreet

1,722 people · 2 places to visit

2 · 5.4 km east of it

Rathcoole

218 people

3 · 9.3 km north of it

Boherbue

422 people

4 · 11 km west of it

Rathmore

766 people

Compare the 8 towns
TownWhere Drishane Castle isPeoplePlaces to visit
Millstreet700 m south of it1,7222
Rathcoole5.4 km east of it2180
Boherbue9.3 km north of it4220
Rathmore11 km west of it7660
Banteer12 km northeast of it3621
Knocknagree12 km northwest of it2130
Lyre13 km east of it1690
Kanturk15 km northeast of it2,8031
Make a day of it

While you are near Drishane Castle

A castle and a museum are among the 2 within 15 km.

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Know before you visit Drishane Castle

Where is Drishane Castle?

Drishane Castle is 700 m north of Millstreet, Cork.

What is Drishane Castle?

MacCarthy tower house and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland.

How well known is Drishane Castle?

Drishane Castle has 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages: #273 of the 1,783 Irish places we list.

When is the best time to visit Drishane Castle?

June to September are the warmest months in Millstreet, with afternoon highs of 17–19°C (Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Drishane Castle?

Within 15 km: Kanturk Castle (14 km) and Millstreet Museum (2.4 km).

Sources: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), CSO 2022 town outlines (CC BY 4.0), Met Éireann 1991–2020 averages (CC BY 4.0).

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (2)

Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).