What is recorded here

Castle, unclassified is a vanished castle in Calf Field, royaloak, County Kildare, Ireland. Local tradition has moved it between Royaloak and Calf Field, but no stones are left for that argument. It is the kind of place that exists only in the trouble it causes: a castle large enough to remember and small enough to lose.

The Down Survey (1655-6) map records a 'castle' in this general area, but the map scale does not allow for a precise location to be determined. This is probably the same 'castle' identified in the OSL in 1837 (Herity 2002, 39) as being, according to local tradition, in Royaloak Townland, but 'none of it now remains'. However, current local tradition places the 'castle' in Calf Field townland to the NW (KD001-007----). The exact location of this monument is unknown. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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