The site, now marked only on old Ordnance Survey maps from 1839 and 1940, tells a story of changing fortunes and contested ownership during one of Ireland’s most turbulent periods.

Records from the Civil Survey of 1654-6 reveal that William Browne of Mulrankin owned the castle and 60 acres at Bridgetown in 1640, though he’d mortgaged the property to Nicholas Rowe for £50. When the 1641 rebellion erupted, the castle became a flashpoint of local conflict; Nicholas Rowe and his wife Ursula occupied the fortress but found themselves robbed by the very Brownes who had previously owned it. The castle later became associated with the Keating family, according to Samuel Lewis writing in 1837, though the details of this connection remain unclear.

Today, visitors to the pasture land where the castle once stood will find no visible traces of the structure that John O’Donovan documented as being demolished in the 1830s. Archaeological investigations in 2006 and 2008 searched the surrounding area but uncovered no related materials, leaving only historical records and the nearby St David’s Well, situated about 25 metres southeast of the former castle site, as reminders of this lost piece of Wexford’s medieval heritage.