First recorded on the Strafford map around 1636, the structure stood near the local church and formed part of an estate comprising nearly 450 profitable acres and 400 unprofitable ones, initially held by the Dean of Clonmacnoise in 1641. By the 1660s, however, most of the valuable land had transferred to Robert FitzGerald, marking a significant shift in local ownership during that turbulent period of Irish history.

The 1837 Ordnance Survey map depicts a rectangular building measuring roughly 10 metres north-northeast to south-southwest and 5 metres west-northwest to east-southeast, labelled in gothic script as ‘Castle Park’. This notation provides one of the clearest historical references to the structure’s location and dimensions, though the building itself had likely already fallen into ruin by the time the survey was conducted.

Today, visitors to the site will find little obvious evidence of the castle’s former presence. A cairn of boulders, measuring approximately 16 metres north to south and 14 metres east to west with a height between 1.2 and 1.6 metres, dominates the location. Whilst this pile appears to consist largely of stones cleared from surrounding fields over the centuries, it’s quite possible that beneath these accumulated rocks lie the original foundations of the castle, preserved but hidden from view.