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Doonagore Castle today

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Doonagore Castle

Doonagore Castle is a cylindrical 16th-century tower house on a grassy coastal hill near Doolin in County Clare, Ireland. It stands within a small stone bawn and today is a privately owned holiday home restored in the 20th century.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

First raised

1600

Its prime

1560

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1560

The shape it held in its prime.

A cylindrical, multi-storey tower of grey-brown sandstone with narrow vertical windows set into the round wall. The tower rises from a low rectangular bawn of matching stone and has a projecting machicolation over the entrance; a crenellated parapet and a small conical cap with finial crown the top. The building sits alone on a windswept grassy hill with a simple path approaching and wide views over the Atlantic shoreline of Doolin Point.

Step inside

7 places to explore in 1560.

The record describes 7 distinct spots at Doonagore Castle — including 2 interiors: cellar / ground-floor chamber, first-floor chamber with beehive vault. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Exterior approach from the hillside pathHilltop view overlooking Doolin Point and the seaBase of tower at the entrance and machicolationWalled bawn (enclosed courtyard)Cellar / ground-floor chamberFirst-floor chamber with beehive vaultBattlements and wall-walk at the parapet

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See Doonagore Castle with the fires lit.

The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1560 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.

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