Maynooth Castle

Maynooth Castle is a ruined twelfth century fortress in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland which stands at the entrance to the South Campus of Maynooth University. Constructed in the early thirteenth century, it became the number one house of the Kildare Fitzmaurice and Fitzgerald family. The location blanketed by way of contemporary Kildare become granted via Strongbow to Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord of Llanstephan in 1176. The unique preserve was constructed about 1203. The fortress become constructed by using Gerald Fitzmaurice, 2nd eldest son of Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord Llanstephan at the junction of streams in the past due twelfth century and became the home of the Fitzmaurice and Fitzgerald family.

From then on it turned into elevated with the aid of Sir John Fitzgerald within the 15th century. Gerald Fitzmaurices descendants have become the Earls of Kildare and Earls of Leinster. Lords Deputy of Ireland. The Fitzgerald career of the castle ended with the 1534 rise up of Silken Thomas, the son of the ninth Earl of Kildare. An English force led by William Skeffington bombarded the big fortress in March 1535, the heavy current siege weapons of the English military creating a spoil of a lot of the Medieval shape.