The lake itself has long since been drained, leaving the castle’s remains stranded in fields where water once lapped at its foundations. Records show the castle was already standing in 1574, when it belonged to one ‘Vllig McRichard’, though its origins likely stretch back further into medieval Ireland’s turbulent past.

Today, visitors will find the tumbled walls of what was once a rectangular tower, measuring roughly 8.4 metres in length and 4.8 metres wide. While only the lower sections of the eastern wall remain standing alongside fragments of the north and south walls, enough survives to reveal the castle’s two-storey design, complete with a vaulted ceiling between the ground and first floors. The surviving architectural details are sparse but intriguing; an aumbry (a small wall cupboard typically used for storing sacred vessels) and a peculiar diagonal chute in the north wall hint at the building’s daily life, whilst possible traces of steps in the southeast corner suggest the main doorway once opened through the south wall.

The castle itself formed just one part of a larger defensive complex. It stood in the northwest section of a substantial quadrangular bawn, a fortified enclosure whose foundations and some wall sections, reaching up to three metres in height, can still be traced across the landscape. The original entrance to this compound, measuring over five metres wide, appears to have been positioned in the northwest corner, immediately north of the tower house. Adding a layer of historical intrigue, an earthwork lies 250 metres to the west; local tradition holds that this feature played a role in the castle’s eventual destruction, though the exact circumstances remain lost to time.