Castle
Olderfleet Castle
NIR Northern Ireland
Olderfleet Castle is a four-storey towerhouse, the remains of which stand on Curran Point to the south of Larne Harbour in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The place name of Olderfleet may be a corruption of Ulfrecksfiord (or Ulfried's Fjord), the Viking name for Larne Lough.
Olderfleet Castle is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Curran and Drumaliss, in the former Larne Borough Council area, at grid ref: D4133 0166.
Text adapted from “Olderfleet Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Olderfleet Castle ranks #4,953 of 7,044 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #19 of the 32 mapped in Northern Ireland. See how Northern Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Olderfleet Castle?
Olderfleet Castle stands in Northern Ireland, at 54.845°, -5.809°.
How famous is Olderfleet Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #4,953 of 7,044 worldwide, and #19 in Northern Ireland. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Olderfleet Castle?
Ballygally Castle, about 7 km away.
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