Temple House Castle

Templehouse Castle was a rectangular keepless castle, built in 1181 located near the townland of Ballinacarrow on the outskirts of Ballymote. The Temple House lands were granted to the Knights Templar in 1216 and passed to the Knights Hospitaller when the Templars were disbanded in 1311. The castle was converted to a domestic residence in 1627 and besieged and badly damaged in 1641.

Near the castle is Temple House, a Georgian mansion set in a family estate of over 400 ha overlooking the lakeside ruins of a Knights Templar castle and is now a luxury country guest house, like a hotel. Originally built in c. 1825, it was substantially extended and embellished c. 1864.

Address
Ballymote, Ireland

Established
1181