This site, marked on the 1931 Ordnance Survey map as a castle (reference MA100-129001-), has all but vanished from the landscape, leaving behind only the faintest traces of its defensive past.

The bawn, a fortified enclosure typical of plantation-era Ireland, would have surrounded and protected the castle that once stood here. These structures were common throughout Ireland from the late medieval period through the 17th century, serving as both defensive fortifications and symbols of authority in the countryside. Today, the land has been transformed into pasture, with agricultural use gradually erasing the physical remnants of this historical site.

Archaeological surveys of the Ballinrobe district, which encompasses both Lough Mask and Lough Carra, have documented numerous such lost sites across the region. The Creggarve castle and bawn represent just one example of Mayo’s vanished heritage; structures that once dominated the local landscape but now exist only in historical records and the trained eye’s ability to spot those telltale undulations in otherwise unremarkable fields.