Ireland
Carrickmines Castle ranks #6,416 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #124 of the 178 mapped in Ireland. 19 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Dublin, 12 km away. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
Carrickmines Castle is an archaeological site in Carrickmines, County Dublin, in eastern Ireland. The castle was built in the Middle Ages to protect the English-ruled Pale around Dublin. The mostly subsurface ruins lay in the path of the M50 motorway, completed in 2005. Sections of the medieval walls and some sections of the castle's defensive structures were preserved within or under M50 roundabouts.
Text adapted from “Carrickmines Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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