The ruins of a castle, made up of a massive keep surrounded by fragments of a tower, a wall and an entrance gate, lie at the west end of the main street. The tower was built in the 12C by the Fitzgeralds, who lived there until 1656, except for a peri..

The college, now part of the National University, was founded in 1795 as St Patrick's College, a seminary for the Irish clergy, on property offered on advantageous terms by the Duke of Leinster. An older school, founded by the Fitzgeralds in 1521, wa..