Ballyfermot Castle was built in the fourteenth century as a stronghold against the raids of the formidable Wicklow clans of O’Byrne and O’Toole. Gaelic relatives of Mac Giolla Mocholmog (Fitzdermot) clan, discommoded from their original lands around Naas, they had not integrated with the Normans. They frequently raided and rustled the area bawn enclosures from [...]