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About Maynooth Castle
Maynooth Castle is a sight (Castles) in Maynooth, in the Maynooth district. The address is Maynooth Castle, Main St, W23 F2D5 Maynooth. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +35316286744. Just around the corner: Yeah Burgr Maynooth (restaurant, 96 m) and DC Speakeasy (cocktail bar, 208 m).
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- Category
- Sight › Castles
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- Address
- Maynooth Castle, Main St
W23 F2D5 Maynooth, Ireland - District
- Maynooth
- Phone
- +35316286744
- Website
- heritageireland.ie
- maynoothcastle@opw.ie
- Coordinates
- 53.38059° N · -6.59434° E
- Data quality
- confidence 0.98
- Identifier
- ID cba712ef-681…
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This was built from 1203 as a stronghold of the Fitzgerald dynasty. It was expanded in the 15th century but early in the 16th its governor "Silken" Thomas Fitzgerald rebelled against Henry VIII. Siege guns of that era could make short work of medieval fortifications, so a vengeful English army blasted down the castle, slew its garrison, and set off in pursuit of Thomas himself. The castle was restored in the 1630s, nicely in time to be wrecked again in the Confederate wars of the 1640s. Only the gatehouse and Solar Tower survived, while the Fitzgeralds decamped to finer mansions and left this ruin.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Maynooth (Ireland)“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 7/7/2021