Though nothing remains visible above ground today, this spot holds a curious cartographic mystery that speaks to the changing nature of historical memory and archaeological understanding.

When the Ordnance Survey first mapped this area in their detailed 6-inch series of 1839, they marked the location simply as ‘Site of Castle’, suggesting that even by then, no physical traces of the structure remained. The surveyors of that era, known for their meticulous attention to local history and folklore, clearly believed something of significance had once stood here, though the castle itself had already vanished from the landscape.

Curiously, when the OS revisited the site for their 1910 edition, they updated the designation to ‘in Ruins’, implying that some remnant of the castle had either been discovered or become newly visible in the intervening decades. Today, the hilltop pasture shows no sign of its medieval past; whatever ruins the early 20th century surveyors observed have since been reclaimed by the Irish countryside, leaving only the maps themselves as testament to this vanished fortress.