Clane Motte

Clane Motte is a Norman fortification located at Cois Abhainn in the village of Clane, Kildare, adjacent to Sunday's Well, a thermal spring now covered over. The impressive earthwork represents a motte, a raised defensive structure typical of Norman military architecture in medieval Ireland. Reputed to be built upon an earlier mound said to mark the burial site of King Mesgegra, a first-century...