Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Confey, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Confey
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Shaughlins Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shaughlins Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.38198, -6.50997
- SMR number
- KD006-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 2), ' … the site of Shaughlin's castle … is now covered with three white thorn bushes and some briars. …(its) ancient name was Foxe's Castle'. Furthermore, 'At a distance of about 18 perches (c.90m) to the West of it, was discovered in the making of a ditch, a Vault, which belonged to this Castle, and appears to have been 6 feet (c.1.8m) broad.' On level pasture at the N end of Shaughlin's Glen. There is no visible surface trace of either the castle or 'vault'. Their distance apart is difficult to reconcile, unless the 'vault' was part of the castle and the location of the castle recorded on the OS 6-inch maps is incorrect.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.