Though marked as both a castle and rectangular enclosure on the first edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (reference WI039-013001-), the site has long since vanished from view at ground level. The historian Price noted in 1936 that despite the field’s evocative local name, no records survive to tell us which family might have built or occupied this fortification.

The site represents one of many lost medieval structures scattered across the Irish landscape, where only place names and old maps hint at what once stood. The rectangular enclosure likely formed part of the castle’s defensive works, perhaps serving as a bawn or fortified courtyard typical of Anglo-Norman and later Irish tower houses. Such enclosures provided protected space for livestock and storage, essential elements of medieval lordship in Ireland.

Today, visitors to Kilpipe will find no visible traces of the castle or its ramparts, yet the site remains catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow, preserving its place in the historical record. The mystery of who built this castle and why it disappeared so completely adds to its intrigue; it joins countless other Irish castles that exist now only in field names, folk memory, and the careful annotations of 19th-century cartographers.