The castle appears on the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a distinctive U-shaped building, positioned on the southeast side of a northeast-southwest running laneway. Its placement on the crest of a low ridge would have given its original occupants strategic views across the surrounding landscape, a common consideration in the siting of such structures.

Today, visitors to this farmyard location won’t find any obvious traces of the castle that once stood here; the stones have long since been repurposed or buried beneath centuries of agricultural activity. What makes this site particularly intriguing for history enthusiasts is its proximity to an earlier settlement pattern; just 30 metres to the east lies a rath (RO023-160), one of Ireland’s ubiquitous ringforts that dotted the landscape during the early medieval period. This close relationship between the two sites suggests a continuity of occupation, where later Anglo-Norman or Gaelic lords may have chosen to build near an already significant location.

The name Bunnamucka itself hints at the area’s Gaelic heritage, with ‘bun’ typically meaning bottom or base in Irish place names. While the castle has vanished from the physical landscape, its ghost lives on in historical records and maps, reminding us that even the most unremarkable patches of Irish farmland often conceal centuries of human habitation and forgotten stories.