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According to Tickell (1960, 399), ‘… no stonework is left [at] the castle[s] (also shown on a seventeenth century map) at Oldtown Villa … ‘. He does not cite the specific seventeenth century map, which was presumably an estate map. In 1986, the owners of Oldtown Villa knew of no tradition of a castle site at the location of their house (SMR file). A castle is not shown here on Taylor's Map of County Kildare (1783), or on any edition of the later OS maps. Unlocated castle within the townland of Oldtown.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 May 2016
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The map shows the centre of the officially named townland area, not the monument. The government record does not identify the exact monument point.