Confey Castle (in ruins)

Confey Castle is a medieval tower house ruin located near Leixlip in County Kildare, originally built by the Eustace family, a powerful Anglo-Norman dynasty whose lands extended across the Pale. The castle was constructed as a five-storey limestone tower house featuring a vaulted ground floor and two projecting corner towers with parapets, as documented in a mid-19th-century watercolour by the ...