Castles and forts in County Kildare
The Discover Alone map has 245 castles and forts in County Kildare, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Woodstock Castle (in Ruins)Castle — hall-houseWoodstock Castle rose on the western bank of the River Barrow in the thirteenth century, built by Richard de St.…
Woodstock CastleRuinsWoodstock Castle stands as a substantial Anglo-Norman hall house on the western bank of the River Barrow, guarding a…
Whites [sic] Castle, Police BarrackCastle — tower houseWhites Castle stands beside Cromaboo Bridge as a four-storied tower house built in the first half of the 16th century.…
TumulusCastle — motte and baileyOldconnell Castle stands as a massive earthen motte and bailey in County Kildare, its steep slopes rising eleven metres…
TumulusCastle — motte and baileyTumulus is a motte and bailey castle in County Kildare, Ireland, where a steep earthen mound still rises above a marshy…
TumulusCastle — motte and baileyLadycastle Lower is a motte and bailey castle in County Kildare, Ireland. A steep earthen mound rises beside the River…
TumulusCastle — motteCarrigeen is an eight-metre conical motte built by the De Hereford family in the late-12th century to control a River…
Tully Ho.Castle — unclassifiedTully Ho is a vanished castle in County Kildare whose stones were scattered into later houses, leaving only marshy…
The MoatCastle — motte and baileyDonode Big is a motte-and-bailey castle in County Kildare, recorded as a historical monument and tied to Sir Roland…
South Moat, Ordnance Ground, Fair GreenCastle — motteSouth Moat rose as a large broken hillock on the Naas Fairgreen, perhaps an old rath or square fort, before soldiers…
.Site of St. Legers CastleCastle — unclassifiedGrangemellon stood in County Kildare as a Jacobean fortified house with two octagonal towers flanking an archway…
Site of Eustace CastleCastle — tower houseEustace Castle was a tower house at the north end of Friary Road, Naas, with a barrel vault over its ground floor.…
Site of Dunfierth CastleCastle — unclassifiedDunfierth Castle vanished completely, leaving only farm sheds and cattle pens on a narrow ridge beside a medieval…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedNurney Castle vanished so completely that Walter Fitzgerald later built his house directly upon its remains, forcing…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedMullacash Middle stood just off the crest of a prominent Kildare hill, losing its visible walls between the 1839 and…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedOn a low but prominently sited hillock in gently undulating pasture. Named 'Site of Castle' on the 1st. ed.(1838) of…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedKillashee Castle vanished before 1837, leaving no stones behind though a medieval church and graveyard still stand…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedDuneany Castle vanished before the first surveyors arrived, leaving only a faint ridge beneath wheat and a medieval…
Site of CastleCastle — tower houseClonagh Castle rose in 1578 when John Lye destroyed an older religious house and stone cross to build his tower. He…
Site of CastleCastle — unclassifiedBrackagh Castle vanished before the first surveyors arrived, leaving only a dashed rectangle on the 1838 map and a low…
Site of Black CastleCastle — unclassifiedNaas West holds the vanished Black Castle, perhaps Lyard's Castle, beside its motte. Rescue digging in 1979 recovered…
Site of Balrinnet CastleCastle — unclassifiedBalrinnet Castle reduced to a grassed cairn in Kildare pasture, perhaps a tower house for one of the twelve sons of…
Sarsfield Castle (Site of)Castle — unclassifiedRosberry pasture in County Kildare still holds two faint banks, perhaps the shadow of Sarsfield Castle. They mark a…
Sallins LodgeCastle — tower houseSallins Lodge swallowed a smaller tower house whole, forcing ancient stone into modern service. The ground floor still…
Richardstown Castle (in Ruins)Castle — tower houseRichardstown Castle stands as a grassed-over ruin on a gentle Kildare slope, its sixty-foot height reduced to a low…
Reeves CastleCastleReeves Castle stands as a four-storey Norman tower house beside the River Liffey, built in the 14th century to guard…
Reban CastleCastle — Anglo-Norman masonry castleReban Castle is an Anglo-Norman masonry castle built in the reign of King John to defend a River Barrow ford. Richard…
Rathmore MoatCastle — motte and baileyRathmore Moat is a steep, grass-covered castle mound on an esker at the west edge of Rathmore, belonging to the…
Queen Buans GraveCastle — motte and baileyQueen Buans Grave is the buried castle of John de Hereford, the first Anglo-Norman proprietor in Mainham. His steep…
Partially OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedHalf-buried in bramble and landfill, Corballis still shows its rough granite ribs. Whether it was a castle or a…
OutlinedCastle — unclassifiedBallycollen is a vanished circular castle in County Kildare, reduced to a thirty-metre earthen ring hidden beneath…
Oughterard CastleCastleOughterard Castle stands in a quiet Kildare pasture, its limestone angles waiting for the missing story. The west wall…
Offaly CastleCastle — tower houseOffaly Castle is a grassed-over ruin in Mountprospect, County Kildare, where a short length of rubble wall still stands…
Mylerstown Castle in RuinsCastle — tower houseMylerstown Castle was a Bermingham tower house, its shadow stretching across the gentle pasture slope before men forgot…MoatCastle — motteWalter de Riddlesford built the castle in 1181, raising an eight-metre conical mound above a deep, wide fosse. The…
MoatCastle — motteMoat is a castle mound in County Kildare, Ireland. It stands eight metres tall on a steep slope above the River…
Leixlip CastleCastleLeixlip Castle has stood in County Kildare since 1172, continuously inhabited through every era because people kept…
Kyledrumman Castle (in ruins)Castle — unclassifiedKyledrumman Castle has vanished so completely that only scattered stone remains near Hobartstown West, denying even…
Kilteel CastleCastle — tower houseKilteel Castle is a five-storied limestone tower house built in the fifteenth century to defend the Pale beside an…
Kilmeague CastleRuinsKilmeague Castle stands in ruins across County Kildare, its broken walls still marking the land where human hands once…
Kill MoatCastle — motte and baileyKillhill is a castle mound in County Kildare, built around the early 13th century when Strongbow granted Offelan to…
Kilkea CastleCastle — tower houseKilkea Castle is a fifteenth-century composite structure where a tower house, gatehouse and central building still…
IndicatedCastle — motteLongtown Demesne holds a broad earthen mound at the northwest edge of a low Kildare ridge, its flat top wide enough for…
IndicatedBawnKilberry bawn still stands beside its gatehouse in County Kildare, though much of its boundary has vanished into later…
IndicatedCastle — unclassifiedGreenhills was called Bishopcourt in the 16th century because the bishopric held a castle and hall there. A small…
IndicatedHouse — fortified houseIndicated, Carbury is a ruined Jacobean fortified house in County Kildare, Ireland. An Anglo-Norman masonry castle was…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIndicated, Barrettstown (donore Ed) is a ruined tower house in County Kildare, Ireland, whose lowest steps and vault…
IndicatedCastle — tower houseIn extensively landscaped grounds, attached to a two storied ‘slightly Ruskinian Gothic Victorian addition’…
IndicatedBawnIndicated is a short bawn wall beside a tower house in Barberstown, County Kildare. It stretches 5.8m, rises 3.1m, and…
IndicatedCastle — motteOne field in Ballyshannon still holds the shape of a castle that stopped being a castle. The mound rises twenty metres…
Inch CastleCastle — tower houseInch Castle stands as a broken tower house in a Kildare farmyard, its eastern half lost to collapse and its western…
HouseHouse — fortified houseDonadea House stands on a low eastern rise in Kildare, built in 1624 around a fifteenth-century tower and marked by an…
Hartwell CastleCastle — unclassifiedHartwell Castle hid inside a working farmhouse until thick walls and a vaulted ceiling betrayed its castle birth. The…
Harristown CastleCastle — tower houseHarristown Castle was a tower house for the Eustace family in County Kildare, occupying a raised square platform below…
Grange CastleCastle — tower houseGrange Castle is a four-storey limestone tower house in County Kildare, probably built in the late fifteenth or early…
Gorteen MoundCastle — unclassifiedGorteen Mound stands in County Kildare as the circular shadow of a castle Richard Eustace must have built in 1608…
Donadea CastleCastle — tower houseDonadea Castle is a four-storied tower house on a low rise in Donadea Forest Park, where Aylmer land stretched from the…
Confey CastleCastle — tower houseConfey Castle is a ruined tower house in County Kildare, Ireland. By the mid-1800s one half had collapsed into pasture…
Colbinstown Castle (in Ruins)Castle — unclassifiedColbinstown Castle vanished beneath a farmhouse, leaving no visible trace though O'Conor still saw ruins in 1837. The…
Cloney CastleCastle — unclassifiedNo visible surface trace survives in the extensive Cloney farmyard, though O’Conor recorded an old castle retaining its…