Places to visit near Tinryland: Carlow Castle & more
Around Tinryland, the places to visit include 3 museums, 2 cathedrals and a castle. No place to visit is mapped inside Tinryland’s urban area; 9 are within 5 km of its edge. Further out, Ballyloughan Castle is 9.4 km away.
Where to start near Tinryland
3 museums, a cathedral and an art gallery follow Carlow Castle.
CastleCarlow Castle4.2 km outside town, to the northwest
CathedralCathedral of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary4 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumCounty Carlow Military Museum4.7 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumCarlow County Museum3.9 km outside town, to the northwestArt galleryArt galleryVISUAL4.1 km outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumSt. Patrick's Trail - Driving Route4 km outside town, to the northwestEach has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
On the map
Look to the northwest for most of the 9 just outside.
The dashed line is Tinryland’s urban area; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · CSO 2022 outline
What there is to see
4 are castles or historic places; museums or galleries come next with 4.
Green: inside Tinryland. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Every one of them
All 9 on the list lie within 5 km of its edge.
Close and well known first. Churches, protected structures and monuments belong to the History page, not here.
Monuments and historic buildings in Tinryland → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Tinryland →
Out of town
Most famous of the 12 is Ballyloughan Castle, 9.4 km from the centre.
CastleBallyloughan Castle9.4 km northeast
CastleBallymoon Castle11 km south
CastleKilkenny Castle29 km southwest
CastleShankill Castle and Gardens15 km southwest
CathedralSaint Marys Cathedral29 km southwest
MuseumDunmore Cave25 km west
CathedralSt Laserian's Cathedral11 km southwest
CathedralSt Canice's Cathedral and Round Tower29 km southwest
CastleHuntington Castle and Gardens21 km southeast
Abbey or priory · Office of Public WorksJerpoint Abbey37 km southwest
FortRathgall Hillfort16 km east
CastleClara Castle22 km southwestPlaces well known beyond Tinryland (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Office of Public Works or National Parks and Wildlife Service property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Tinryland, answered
What is there to see near Tinryland?
No attraction is mapped inside Tinryland itself. Within 5 km of it are Carlow Castle, Cathedral of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, County Carlow Military Museum and Carlow County Museum.
Does Tinryland have a museum?
4 museums and galleries are in or within 5 km of Tinryland: County Carlow Military Museum, Carlow County Museum, VISUAL and St. Patrick's Trail - Driving Route.
Is there a Heritage Ireland (OPW) or national park property near Tinryland?
None within 5 km. The nearest well-known one on our list is Jerpoint Abbey (Office of Public Works), 37 km southwest.
What are the best-known days out near Tinryland?
Within 40 km: Ballyloughan Castle (9.4 km), Ballymoon Castle (11 km), Kilkenny Castle (29 km), Shankill Castle and Gardens (15 km).
How is this list made?
From Fáilte Ireland’s open data on attractions (museums, castles, historic houses, abbeys, gardens, national parks, landscapes, islands, zoos and visitor farms: restaurants, pubs, shops and tour operators are left out), OpenStreetMap (places open to visitors; a ruined castle on farmland needs a sign it can be visited) and Wikidata (what each place is, who looks after it, its Wikipedia articles), merged into one list and placed in the town’s CSO 2022 outline or within 5 km of its edge.
Places to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in each town’s CSO 2022 outline. Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (16)
- Carlow Castle: Age Bosma, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cathedral of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary: Joe Byrne, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- County Carlow Military Museum: TheRealDug, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carlow County Museum: Smirkybec, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ballyloughan Castle: VisionsofthePast, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ballymoon Castle: Poleary91, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kilkenny Castle: Tolivero~commonswiki, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Shankill Castle and Gardens: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Saint Marys Cathedral: Stevage, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Dunmore Cave: Jan-Philipp Litza, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Laserian's Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- St Canice's Cathedral and Round Tower: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Huntington Castle and Gardens: Liam Hughes from Milwaukee, WI, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jerpoint Abbey: Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rathgall Hillfort: Simon Dowling, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clara Castle: liam murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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).