Located about 40 metres south of the River Inny, which marks the boundary between Ballycorkey and Rathclittagh townlands, this site offers a fascinating glimpse into how medieval structures can vanish whilst leaving their mark on the land itself. Though no castle walls remain standing today, the 1837 Ordnance Survey map clearly marked it as ‘site of castle’, showing it within a square field at a time when the river ran wider than it does now.

What remains visible today is a rectangular enclosure, possibly a bawn (a fortified courtyard typical of Irish castles), defined by weathered earthen banks and a shallow defensive ditch, or fosse. Aerial photography from 2011 reveals these features clearly, though the northwestern side has been obscured by spoil from river dredging works. Various earthworks extend from this central rectangle; low banks stretch southeast and east, whilst several linear features in the surrounding fields might date from the castle’s heyday or could simply be remnants of later drainage efforts during the post-medieval period.

The area holds other intriguing features that speak to centuries of human activity. An eel weir appears on that same 1837 map about 60 metres to the west, whilst Ballycorkey Bridge stands 100 metres to the northeast. The trace of an old roadway is still visible as an earthwork in the field immediately south-southeast of the castle site. Perhaps most tantalisingly, a single dressed limestone fragment of apparent medieval date has been spotted in a nearby roadside wall; quite possibly the last carved stone from the vanished castle, recycled into the everyday architecture of rural Ireland.