What is recorded here

Castle (in Ruins), Haynestown is a leaning gateway in County Kildare, tilted uphill like a dog refusing to lie down. Its round arch still stands at the corner of a lost bawn, with bolt holes and a small murder-hole piercing the underside. The rest has gone to grass and memory, but the gate keeps its shape, holding the slope and waiting for someone to remember the building it once guarded.

Near the top of a short, moderately steep, SE-facing slope in improved pasture. The foundation walls of a rectangular bawn (dims. L c. 50m; Wth c. 25m) containing the foundation walls of a building were noted in 1940 (SMR File). While no surface traces of these features survive, the remains of a gateway still stand at the SW corner. This is a round-arched, rectangular masonry structure (Wth 2.57m; H 3.46m) with bolt/hinge sockets on each side, inside the outer ashlar jambs. There is an internal flat arch, which is pierced by a small hole (dims. L 0.3m; Wth 0.2m), possibly a murder hole, on the underside of which wicker centring is visible. A very short length (L 0.73m) of the W wall of the bawn extends N from the gateway. The monument is leaning uphill, c. 10 degrees away from the vertical. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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