Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Oldconnell, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldconnell
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 53.18875, -6.78743
- SMR number
- KD023-012----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · 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
In open parkland on the grounds of Oldconnell House, some 230m E of the River Liffey. A large well-preserved, circular, steep sided, flat-topped earthen mound (base diams. 76m N-S; 69m E-W; summit diams. 21.7m N-S; 20.8m E-W; max H. 11.2m at E; 10.5m at W) is surrounded by a wide, shallow fosse (max. Wth 11.4m at W; max D. 3m). A cresentic bailey at W (L 55m E-W; Wth 29.2m N-S) is defined by a scarp except at E where the fosse separates it from the motte.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 25 May 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.