What is recorded here

Castle stood in Flemingstown North as a three-storey tower with a smaller attached house and three cottages, likely defending the Pale. It has lost nearly everything visible, leaving only grass-covered rectangular foundations where its walls once rose.

An unsigned map of 1707 (NLI Ms. 21) shows an apparently three storey tower house with a smaller, two storey house attached, together with three neighbouring, single storey cottages, in the centre of this townland. The monument is also recorded, and named 'Ca Rs', on Taylor’s Map of County Kildare (1783). Tickell (1960, 399) suggests it was one of the castles erected to defend the Pale. Only the grass-covered foundations of a rectangular structure survive. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 June 2012

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