Taylor and Skinner’s 1777 map clearly marks the site as a castle in ruins, but intriguingly, when they published their 1778 edition just a year later, the same location shows only a house. This swift transformation captured in cartographic records suggests either a rapid demolition and rebuilding project or, perhaps more likely, an error in one of the survey editions.

Today, no visible traces remain above ground to mark where this castle once stood. The precise location has been lost to time, leaving historians and archaeologists to rely solely on these eighteenth-century maps for clues about its whereabouts. The mystery deepens when considering what might have prompted such a significant change in the landscape between 1777 and 1778; whether the ruins were cleared to make way for a new dwelling, or if the castle stones were repurposed for the construction of the house shown in the later map.

The site represents one of many lost castles across Ireland, structures that once dotted the landscape but have since disappeared completely from view. These phantom fortifications remind us how much of Ireland’s medieval heritage exists only in historical documents and old maps, their physical presence erased by centuries of change, development, and the practical reuse of building materials by local communities.