That might sound like a contradiction, but it is simply the fate of one of five ornamental towers that once decorated the estate, built in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and demolished not long after. The site where it stood is recorded, the coordinates are known, and yet there is nothing left to see.

The tower sat roughly forty metres to the south-west of Bingham Castle House, immediately north of an earthen mound of older and uncertain origin. It was not a defensive structure or a medieval remnant but one of several architectural flourishes added to the Bingham estate during the Victorian or Edwardian period, when landowners across Ireland sometimes dressed their grounds with follies, towers, and decorative ruins, mixing the aesthetic fashions of the day with a sense of romantic landscape design. Five such towers were recorded across the estate in total. This particular one did not survive long into the twentieth century, and the ground it occupied has since given back nothing visible to the surface.