Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Confey, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Confey
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Confey Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Confey Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.37779, -6.48135
- SMR number
- KD006-004----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Manning (2001, 143-5) published a mid-19th century watercolour by Du Noyer which shows one half of the castle standing to full, five story plus attic, height. There is a vault over the first floor, two projecting, parapetted corner towers are depicted and a heap of rubble is shown on the levelled half of the monument. In open, level pasture, drained to the W by a small, S-flowing stream. The castle stands within a field system (KD006-017----) which also appears to extend around a medieval church (KD006-003----) and graveyard (KD006-003001-) c. 160m to the WSW, the intervening stream being crossed by a small bridge c. 50m to the WSW of the castle. The surviving remains comprise an ivy clad, single, small and now only three storeys high, rectangular corner tower (int. dims. L 1.9m; Wth 1.5m), built of roughly coursed, unbattered, limestone blocks (wall T 0.95m) with hammer-dressed quoins. A narrow lintelled loop is visible in the SW wall at first-floor level. The tower appears to have projected to the SW from the SW angle of the tower house (max. projection 2.3m) and does not appear to have contained a stairs. (O'Keeffe 1985-6, 408-17)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.