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Adare Castle
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National monument to visit

Adare Castle

Also known as Adare Desmond Castle

A national monument open to visitors
CCastle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
DirectionsIts record on the heritage map ↗Its website ↗

Opening times and tickets are on its own website.

About

About Adare Castle

The State cares for Adare Castle, a national monument in Adare. 11 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 · LI021-032003-↗

The National Monuments Service lists it among the monuments it cares for that visitors can see.

Visit

Make it a walk: 4 historic places in about 10 minutes

Adare · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies

DirectionsWalk the tour in Google Maps
  1. 1Adare CastleStart here
  2. 2Adare BridgeNational rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
  3. 3School, Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare)Regional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
  4. 4The RectoryRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
Farther afield
Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare) (abbey)Regional rating (NIAH)300 mSaint Nicholas's Church (Adare) (church / chapel)National rating (NIAH)300 mMausoleum, Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare)Regional rating (NIAH)300 mAdare Manor (bridge)Regional rating (NIAH)400 mAdare Franciscan FriaryArchaeological monument (SMR)400 mAdare Manor (demesne walls / gates / railings)Regional rating (NIAH)600 m

Questions about Adare Castle

Is Adare Castle on the National Inventory?

It is a national monument on the Sites and Monuments Record (LI021-032003-), cared for by the State.

Can you visit Adare Castle?

It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.

Is Adare 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).

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).