Today there is nothing to see. No wall, no earthwork, no worn threshold. The settlement known in the Middle Ages as Corkmoy, or Corkemoyth, has left no visible surface trace whatsoever, and what is now called Castletown Conyers carries the name of a seventeenth-century purchaser rather than the vanished community that preceded him.

The story of Corkmoy is one that arrives clearly and then goes abruptly silent. The manor appears to have been held by the Fitzmaurices in the early period of the Anglo-Norman conquest of Munster, and in 1276 Maurice FitzMaurice granted it to his son-in-law, Thomas de Clare, a figure who played a significant role in consolidating Anglo-Norman power across Limerick and Clare. Eight years later, in 1284, Thomas received the right to hold a weekly market at Corkmoy, and it is this grant that scholars associate with the probable foundation of the borough settlement itself, markets being the engine of such small planned towns. By 1321, when an inquisition was taken after the death of the last of the de Clares, the burgesses of Corkmoid were recorded as paying £4 2s annually in rents, which suggests a functioning if modest urban community. The manor then passed to the Clifford family, who held it through the middle of the fourteenth century. After that point, the record simply stops. Nothing further is known of the borough's history, and it is unclear whether it was abandoned gradually or collapsed quickly.

Archaeologists believe the medieval borough was probably centred near the surviving cluster of monuments in the area, including a hall house, a motte, and a church, a motte being an earthen mound used as the base for an early Norman fortification. These features still appear in the Sites and Monuments Record, but the borough itself has left nothing above ground for a visitor to read. Anyone coming to the area should consult the National Monuments Service mapping before visiting, as the relevant monuments are on private agricultural land. The absence of visible remains is, in its own way, the point. Corkmoy is a place that functioned, collected rents, and held markets, and then quietly ceased to be, leaving only a name in a handful of medieval documents and a set of coordinates in a modern database.