Ireland · Ruin
Ballyloughan Castle
Ballyloughan Castle is a ruined medieval castle near Bagenalstown, County Carlow, Ireland. The surviving fabric includes a twin-towered gatehouse, the footprint and fragmentary walls of the hall, and the foundations of one corner tower, sited on the western end of a glacial ridge.
Its prime
1300
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1300
What Ballyloughan Castle looked like in its prime.
A roughly square stone castle of coarse rubble masonry with two large, round gatehouse towers set side-by-side forming the main entrance; curtain walls rise from the towers to similar heights with gaps where masonry has collapsed. The towers show narrow vertical window openings and irregular, weathered stonework in pale brown-grey. The hall's footprint and the low remains of a corner tower are visible; the site sits on a grassy ridge above open farmland.
Its story
The story of Ballyloughan Castle.
Ballyloughan was built in the 13th century in County Carlow, a moated courtyard castle of roughly 43 by 46 metres enclosed by a wall of unhewn granite blocks. It was held first by the Kavanagh family and passed later to the Bagenals, and in the 18th century the site served as a country house.
What survives today is a gate, two corner towers and the former gatehouse, protected as a National Monument. The gatehouse interior and one of the two towers can still be entered by visitors.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1300.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Ballyloughan Castle — including 2 interiors: gate passage (ground floor), hall interior and footprint. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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Clans who held Ballyloughan Castle.
The families that held Ballyloughan Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Kavanagh
First holders of Ballyloughan from its 13th-century building.
Bagenal
Held Ballyloughan after the Kavanaghs.
