Garbally Castle

Garbally castle is a late medieval tower house located in the parish of Skehana, County Galway.

[2] Garbally Castle was built in 1499 by Malachy O'Kelly as a tower house, the Kelly clan being renowned in Ireland at this time as builders of fortresses.

After this time the lands were owned by three Roman Catholic landowners, two of the named Patrick Ffrench, but by the Griffiths Valuation of Tenements in the early 1850s, Robert French, a diplomat who served as Secretary to the British Embassy in St. Petersburg and Vienna was the owner of the entire townland.

There is a pointed arch doorway on the southeastern wall which is overlooked by a gun loop in the south jamb and there is also a murder-hole.

Within the handball court there is a plaque which is a memorial to Ellen Mannion who died here in 1850, aged 25, with her husband Michael McDermott and their two children who sheltered in the ruined castle following from their eviction from their house.