Macroom Castle
West Square, Macroom
Opening times and tickets are on its own website.
Macroom Castle, 1911 and today
Drag across to compare. The two views aren’t taken from exactly the same spot.
1911: Public domain. Today: Photo: Mith · CC BY-SA 3.0.
About Macroom Castle
The National Inventory rates Macroom Castle National, one of 1 in Macroom. Its record dates Macroom Castle to 1800–1837. 44 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 20852020↗National is the National Inventory’s second-highest rating: a building of significance across Ireland.
1 old view of Macroom Castle
Made before 1950, from 1911: public domain, or from the National Library of Ireland with no known copyright restrictions. Tap one to see it full screen.
1911From Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server; each credit is in the viewer.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Macroom · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Macroom CastleStart here
- 2Macroom Castle (gate lodge)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 3Castleville HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4Macroom Post OfficeRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5Saint Mary's Convent (convent / nunnery)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
7 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: nationally rated houses near Macroom
5 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. Start with “House, The Mercy Hospital” in Cork City Centre, 33 km away. The farthest is Muckross House in Killarney, 39 km away.
Questions about Macroom Castle
Is Macroom Castle on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated National (record 20852020).
Can you visit Macroom Castle?
Many historic buildings are private homes; this one can be seen from the street.
When was Macroom Castle built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1837.
Is Macroom 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: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · 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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