What is recorded here

Oldconnell Castle stands as a massive earthen motte and bailey in County Kildare, its steep slopes rising eleven metres above a shallow fosse near the River Liffey. The mound remains sharply defined beside a crescentic western court, suggesting powerful local hands shaped the land before written history forgot them. People may have watched the water or commanded the valley from that flat top, while others merely marveled at the size of the earthwork.

In open parkland on the grounds of Oldconnell House, some 230m E of the River Liffey. A large well-preserved, circular, steep sided, flat-topped earthen mound (base diams. 76m N-S; 69m E-W; summit diams. 21.7m N-S; 20.8m E-W; max H. 11.2m at E; 10.5m at W) is surrounded by a wide, shallow fosse (max. Wth 11.4m at W; max D. 3m). A cresentic bailey at W (L 55m E-W; Wth 29.2m N-S) is defined by a scarp except at E where the fosse separates it from the motte. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 25 May 2012

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