Richardstown Castle (in Ruins) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Richardstown Castle stands as a grassed-over ruin on a gentle Kildare slope, its sixty-foot height reduced to a low rectangular mound of collapsed stone. One small wall core still rises above the pasture, preserving the mortar and shape of a building that once towered over the land. The rest has returned to earth, leaving only a faint ridge and a memory of height.

Recorded in the OSL (Herity 2002, 26 (75)) as '… an old Castle … which is, according to the Namebook, "A square building about sixty feet in height"'. At the top of a long and very gentle S-facing pasture slope. A slightly raised, rectangular area (dims. L 16.8m E-W; Wth 10m; H 0.5m) of grassed-over, collapsed stone carries a small segment of 'in situ' mortared wall core (dims. L 1.8m E-W; T 1m; H 1.5m) from which the inner and outer facing stones have been robbed, and, 3m to the W, two similar but collapsed portions of wall core, one of which has inner and outer facing stones intact (wall T 1.2m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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