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The OSL (Herity 2002, 155 (181)) recorded the local tradition of a castle here, and Fitzgerald (1912-14, 424) quotes an extract from a 1674 survey of the estate of John, 18th Earl of Kildare, 'Carrickanearle contains … a Peace of An old Castle upon a high hill betwixt two mountains … '. On a mound (KD017-028001-) where a shallow, square depression (dims. L 4m; Wth 4m; D 0.6m) occurs on the SW upper surface of the mound, and is retained along its SW side by a low, grassed-over stone wall (Wth 1.1m; H 0.6m). A second portion of collapsed walling (L 5m NNW-SSE; Wth 2.7m; H 0.7m) down-slope immediately to the E may also be part of a ruined castle, other evidence for which is provided by an architectural fragment, a well dressed and chamfered arch-stone lying in the field to the NE of the monument (KD017-028005-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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Chair of Kildare — Carrickanearla

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