No walls remain, no earthwork rises from the ground, and no local landmark confidently claims the spot. What survives is a single cartographic notation, enough to confirm that something stood here, but not quite enough to say where.

The source is the Down Survey, the remarkable land mapping project carried out between 1655 and 1656 under the direction of William Petty. Commissioned by the Cromwellian administration to assist in the redistribution of land following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Down Survey was one of the most ambitious cartographic undertakings of seventeenth century Europe, producing detailed barony and parish maps of forfeited Irish territories. On the relevant sheet for this area, a dwelling is marked roughly to the north of Mayne bridge. That is the full extent of what the record offers. Whether the structure was already old by the time the surveyors passed through, or whether it was a more recent building caught in the upheaval of mid-century land confiscation, the map does not say. The site was recorded by Geraldine Stout and uploaded to the survey database in August 2011.

Because the exact location remains unknown, there is no specific point a visitor can stand and say with confidence that this is the place. The area around Maynetown and Mayne bridge in north County Dublin is the broad search zone, and the landscape itself is the only context available. For anyone with an interest in how historical landscapes are reconstructed, the exercise of looking at the Down Survey maps online, through the Trinity College Dublin digital archive where they are freely accessible, gives a clearer sense of what Petty's teams recorded and how much inference sits between a dot on a period map and a real building on real ground. The absence here is itself informative, a reminder that the documentary record of ordinary rural structures from this period is extremely thin, and that most houses of this era left nothing behind at all.