Castletown (disambiguation)
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Castletown may refer to:
  • Castle town
    Castle town
    A castle town is a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle. Castle towns are common in Medieval Europe. Good example include small towns like Alnwick and Arundel, which are still dominated by their castles...

    , a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle

Places

  • Castletown, Isle of Man


in England:
  • Castletown, Portland, Dorset
  • Castletown, Tyne and Wear
    Castletown, Tyne and Wear
    Castletown is an area of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear. A former mining community, the Hylton Colliery was located at the east end of the village, it lies north of the River Wear, and is near to Hylton Castle and Washington...

  • Castletown, Penrith, Cumbria


in the Republic of Ireland:
  • Castletownroche
    Castletownroche
    Castletownroche is a village on the N72 National secondary road in County Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland. In ancient times, it was known in Irish as Dún Chruadha, meaning Cruadha's Fort...

    , County Cork
    • Castletown, County Cork
      Castletown, County Cork
      Castletown is a townland in Castletownroche, County Cork, Ireland.-External links:*...

       townland
  • Castletown, County Laois
    Castletown, County Laois
    Castletown is a small village and also a parish in County Laois in Ireland.Castletown is known as “The Tidiest Village in Laois”. Chairman of the Tidy Towns committee is Seán Fleming, TD. Not only is Castletown the Tidiest Village in Laois but in 1998, Castletown were just four points behind the...

  • Castletown, County Limerick
  • Castletown House
    Castletown House
    Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. It formed the centrepiece of a estate...

    , County Kildare
  • Castletownbere
    Castletownbere
    Castletownbere is a small town in County Cork in Ireland. It is located on the southwest coast of Ireland, in West Cork, on Berehaven harbour near the entrance to Bantry Bay. It is also known as Castletown Berehaven. The name of the town comes from the no longer extant MacCarty Castle, and not...

    , County Cork
  • Castletown-Geoghegan
    Castletown-Geoghegan
    Castletown Geoghegan in County Westmeath, Ireland, lies south west of Lough Ennell near the county town of Mullingar. Castletown was the seat of the Geoghegan family of the medieval Barony of Moycashel, County Westmeath. The family were descendants of the Southern Ui Neill. They were major...

    , County Westmeath
  • Castletown, County Wexford
    Castletown, County Wexford
    Castletown, historically called Ballycaslane , is a small village in northeast County Wexford, Ireland.Castletown is in the parish of Kilgorman which is one of the earliest Christian settlements in Ireland...



in Northern Ireland:
  • Castletown, County Tyrone; townland in which the Ulster American Folk Park
    Ulster American Folk Park
    The Ulster American Folk Park is an open-air museum in Castletown, just outside Omagh, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The Park explores the historical link between Ulster and America, focusing particularly on the lifestyle and experiences of those immigrants who sailed from Ulster to America...

     is located


in Scotland:
  • Castletown, Caithness
    Castletown, Caithness
    Castletown is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of Caithness. The A836 links the village with Thurso and Tongue in the west and...


Other uses

  • Castletown (horse)
    Castletown (horse)
    Castletown is a New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse who won over $2 million in prize money and is best known for winning one of New Zealand's toughest staying tests, the Wellington Cup, on three occasions. He had over 100 starts, from two to eight years of age, including a record 13 races over...

    , a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Castletown, County Mayo, the fictional setting of the mockumentary Hardy Bucks
    Hardy Bucks
    Hardy Bucks is an Irish mockumentary TV show written by Martin Maloney, Chris Tordoff and Mike Cockayne. The Hardy Bucks started out with a series of largely improvised online webisodes directed and edited by Tordoff who had studied Media Production. A six-part webisode series went on to win the...

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