Today, you won’t spot any towering walls or crumbling battlements; the site has vanished from ground level, leaving only historical records to mark its existence. The castle appears solely on the 1926 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, a ghostly cartographic echo of what once stood here.

Historical documents provide tantalising glimpses of the castle’s past. Around 1640, this ‘small decayed castle’ belonged to David Power of Shangarry, County Cork, suggesting it had already fallen into disrepair by the early 17th century. The Power family were prominent landowners in the region during this period, and their ownership of this modest fortification hints at the complex network of properties that underpinned Irish gentry estates.

Whilst nothing remains visible today, the site represents countless similar small castles that once dotted the Irish countryside. These minor fortifications served as local strongholds, administrative centres, and symbols of authority for centuries before gradually disappearing into the landscape. The Ross castle site now exists primarily in the archaeological record, recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford and preserved through careful documentation rather than stone and mortar.