Ireland · Restored
Aughnanure Castle
Aughnanure Castle is a late-15th-century tower house and double bawn near Oughterard in County Galway, built by the O'Flaherty family and today managed as a historic monument. The site comprises a six-storey crenellated tower, a distinctive round watchtower, a double bawn enclosure with curtain walls, a ruined banqueting hall with relief carvings, and docks on Lough Corrib.
Its prime
1490
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1490
The shape it held in its prime.
A six-storey, square-plan stone tower house of weathered grey masonry with crenellated parapet, projecting bartizans and machicolations above the entrance, and narrow vertical slit windows interspersed with larger later-style openings; an arched doorway at ground level; an enclosing double bawn of low stone curtain walls connected to a stout, round watchtower with a conical stone cap; a grassy inner court and the shoreline/docks of Lough Corrib visible nearby; carved water-spouts and relief vine motifs on the adjacent ruined banqueting hall.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1490.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Aughnanure Castle — including 1 interior: ruined banqueting hall with relief carvings (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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