Ireland · Still standing
Ross Castle
Ross Castle is a late 15th-century Irish tower house and keep on the edge of Lough Leane in Killarney National Park, County Kerry. Built by the O'Donoghue chiefs and later associated with the Browne family, it comprises a tall rectangular tower surrounded by a square bawn with round corner towers and defended entrances.
Its prime
1490
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1490
The shape it held in its prime.
A tall rectangular stone tower house rising from a square bawn with curtain walls and round corner towers, built of pale grey rubble and ashlar-quoins. The tower has diagonal square bartizans on opposite corners and a crenellated parapet with machicolations over the entrance and rear wall. Narrow vertical arrow-slit windows puncture the lower levels, while larger windows appear high on the tower; the complex sits at the grassy edge of Lough Leane with a flat parapet roofline.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1490.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Ross Castle — including 6 interiors: front entrance anteroom (yett), ground floor / storage, second floor — attendants' quarters and more. 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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See Ross Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1490 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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