<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conolly's_Folly">This folly</a> was built to provide nearby <a href="http://kildare.ie/leixlip/places-of-interest/castletown-house.asp">Castletown House</a> with a nice view. It also provided hundreds of people with work during the Great Famine of 1740.
Conolly's Folly is a tourist attraction, one of the Obelisks in Castletown, Ireland. It is located: 7.2 km from Leixlip, 8.1 km from Celbridge, 58 km from Dublin. Read further
