The site first appears as a rectangular structure, roughly 5 metres square, on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map, with subsequent editions through to 1925 continuing to note it as a castle site. Located on a gentle eastern slope beside what is now a farm complex, the spot offers no visual clues to its former significance.

The castle’s history emerges primarily from the Civil Survey of 1654;6, which recorded it as a small castle in good repair with 300 acres of land attached. The property belonged to William or Alison Hore in 1640, part of a larger estate that included another fortification at nearby Traceystown. The Hore family appears to have been reasonably prosperous landowners in mid-17th century Wexford, maintaining multiple properties across the county during a turbulent period in Irish history.

While the physical structure has long since vanished, likely demolished or incorporated into later farm buildings, the site remains an intriguing piece of Wexford’s plantation era landscape. The absence of earlier medieval references suggests this was probably a tower house or fortified residence built during the late 16th or early 17th century, a time when such defensive dwellings were common amongst the landed gentry of south Leinster. Archaeological investigation might yet reveal foundations or other buried features that could tell us more about this lost piece of Ardenagh’s past.