What is recorded here

Tumulus is a motte and bailey castle in County Kildare, Ireland, where a steep earthen mound still rises above a marshy valley. The triangular bailey beside it has been quarried in places, suggesting people took stones or soil for other uses while the main mound remained. The causeway between them crosses wet ground where a small stream flows north, tying the castle to the boundary between Connell and Offaly East.

On the E side of a shallow, marshy valley through which a small stream flows N c. 70m to the W of the monument and forms the baronial boundary between the Barony of Connell to the E and the Barony of Offaly East to the W. A tall, steep-sided, uneven-topped, circular earthen mound is enclosed by a fosse at the base (H above fosse at N 9m; diam. of summit 10m). An earthen causeway at SSE links to an approximately triangular bailey (L. 80m; W at causeway 40m; H. at E 5m, H. above valley at S and W 8.5m) which appears to have been quarried in places. There is a low earthen bank on the bailey at E. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

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