The castle sits within two concentric hilltop enclosures, providing sweeping views across the landscape in nearly every direction except eastward. What remains today is a rectangular tower that once stood at least five storeys high, measuring approximately 12 metres east to west and 10 metres north to south. Though most of the structure has been reduced to foundation level, the northeast corner still reaches what would have been the third floor, offering visitors a sense of the building’s original imposing height.

The tower’s ground floor featured a doorway near the southern end of the western wall, leading into a chamber roughly 6 by 5 metres in size. This room once boasted window embrasures on three sides; north, east and south; though only fragments remain visible today. The first and third floors were both covered by stone vaults running east to west, with remnants of the vault springings still visible in the northeast corner. A photograph from 1900 shows the structure in better condition, with the northeast corner standing a full storey higher and displaying the sides of window embrasures on both the north and east walls. Since then, time and weather have taken their toll, with large chunks of masonry now scattered around the site and the upper portion of the standing section having collapsed as recently as 1998.

The castle’s history stretches back to the medieval period when it served as the seat of the Condon family, before being granted to the Hyde family during the 17th century. According to the 19th century antiquarian Windele, the hilltop enclosure surrounding the tower was likely repurposed as a bawn, a fortified enclosure typical of Irish tower houses, with some internal structures probably dating to the same period as the main tower. A mural passage within the eastern wall at third floor level hints at the sophisticated defensive features that once protected this stronghold.