What is recorded here
White Castle stood on the present Town Hall site in Naas West, its nineteen-metre frontage facing North Main Street while a walled garden hid behind. The building disappeared under later bricks, leaving only vague rear walls that may predate 1700. No clear castle stone remains visible, yet the Town Hall still occupies the exact footprint where that white structure once commanded the street.
According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 353), White Castle was situated on the site of the present Town Hall. It had a 19m frontage on North Main Street and was 9m deep. It also had a back premises and a walled rear garden. While some walls to the rear of the Town Hall may be pre-1700 in date, none can be clearly identified as belonging to the castle. (Murtagh 1983-4, 359)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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