The castle appears on both the first edition Ordnance Survey map from 1840 and the second edition from 1907, marking its historical significance to the area. Today, however, you won’t find any medieval stonework or crumbling towers; instead, a corrugated iron shed occupies the spot where the castle once stood.

The complete disappearance of the castle above ground level tells its own story about Ireland’s lost heritage. Many such fortifications across the country have vanished over the centuries, their stones repurposed for local building projects or simply weathered away by time. The fact that Clocully Castle warranted inclusion on nineteenth and early twentieth century maps suggests it was still recognisable as ruins during that period, making its total absence today all the more striking.

While the corrugated shed might seem an anticlimactic replacement for a medieval stronghold, the site remains an intriguing reminder of how the Irish landscape has been continuously reshaped and reimagined. The castle’s former location, recorded by cartographers but now invisible to the casual observer, represents countless similar sites across Ireland where history lies buried beneath the everyday, waiting to be remembered through old maps and local memory.