Blarney Castle
In Irish: Caisleán na Blarnan
Opening times and tickets are on its own website.
Blarney Castle, c. 1830 and today
Drag across to compare. The two views aren’t taken from exactly the same spot.
c. 1830: Public domain. Today: Photo: Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0.
About Blarney Castle
Blarney Castle is on the Sites and Monuments Record in Blarney. 7 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
SMRSee it on the heritage mapIts entry in the Sites and Monuments Record, on the State’s heritage map · CO062-177----↗The Sites and Monuments Record lists it as an archaeological site; it has a page here because it has an encyclopedia article.
2 old views of Blarney Castle
Made before 1950, from 1830 to 1919: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland with no known copyright restrictions. Tap one to see it full screen.
c. 1830
c. 1919From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server; each credit is in the viewer.
Make it a walk: 4 historic places in about 10 minutes
Blarney · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Blarney CastleStart here
- 2Blarney House (outbuilding)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3
Blarney House (country house)Regional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on - 4Blarney House (kiln)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
Church of the Resurrection (Garrycloyne)Regional rating (NIAH)500 mBlarney Woollen Mills (miller's house)Regional rating (NIAH)600 m1 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Houses on the record near Blarney
Start with Carrigrohane Castle in Ballincollig, 3.7 km away. All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. “House, 50 Pope's Quay, Cork” in Shandon is the farthest, at 7.3 km.
Questions about Blarney Castle
Is Blarney Castle on the National Inventory?
It is on the Sites and Monuments Record (CO062-177----), the State’s list of archaeological sites.
Can you visit Blarney Castle?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
Is Blarney Castle protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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