Though marked on current Ordnance Survey maps as ‘Castle (site of)’, visitors today will find no visible surface traces of the fortification that once stood here. The only clues to its former presence lie in the subtle features of the landscape itself.

A trackway runs along the western edge of the site, much as it likely did centuries ago when the castle was still standing. Alongside this ancient route, a stone wall approximately four metres long and 1.3 metres high has been rebuilt, incorporating what may well be original castle masonry. Just four metres east of the roadway, a gentle scarp measuring three metres wide and half a metre high hints at defensive earthworks or the foundations of long-demolished structures.

The site serves as a reminder of how thoroughly time and agriculture can erase even substantial medieval buildings from the Irish landscape. Without the cartographic memory preserved by the Ordnance Survey, this castle would be entirely forgotten, its stones recycled into field walls and its earthworks smoothed away by generations of ploughing. Today, only the trained eye might recognise the subtle undulations and alignments that mark where lords once held court and soldiers kept watch over the surrounding countryside.