Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Oldtown (carnalway Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (carnalway Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KD024-030----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Tickell (1960, 399), ‘… no stonework is left [at] the castle[s] (also shown on a seventeenth century map) at Oldtown Villa … ‘. He does not cite the specific seventeenth century map, which was presumably an estate map. In 1986, the owners of Oldtown Villa knew of no tradition of a castle site at the location of their house (SMR file). A castle is not shown here on Taylor's Map of County Kildare (1783), or on any edition of the later OS maps. Unlocated castle within the townland of Oldtown.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 May 2016
References
Tickell, E. F. 1960 The Eustace Family and their lands in County Kildare, Part 3. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 13, 364-413.