The tower, partially covered in ivy, survives to just above first floor level, though its southeast corner has collapsed. The ground floor features a segmental vault with wicker centring that runs north to south, largely intact except where it once met the southern wall. Above this, the first floor retains portions of a pointed vault oriented east to west, though this too has suffered damage at the southeast corner.

The tower’s entrances tell a story of practical medieval design; the ground floor was accessed through a lintelled doorway at the southern end of the east wall, though time has cracked the lintel and much of the door’s southern side has fallen away. The first floor had its own entrance via a lintelled door in the south corner of the west wall, of which only the northern side remains. Light entered the first floor through central lintelled windows on the north and west walls, each fitted with narrow, flat-headed openings. When historian Hartnett documented the site in 1950, he noted that the southeast corner still stood to second floor height and recorded a stairwell in that corner, though no trace of it survives today. Curious architectural features include what may be a buttress at the external northeast corner at ground level, and a series of projecting stones at first and second floor level on both the northeast corner and east face, whose exact purpose remains unclear.

The castle’s history proves as enigmatic as some of its architectural features. Hartnett suggested the castle was likely built by the Carews, who held these lands throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though local historian Coleman noted in 1913 that “nothing seems to be known” of its actual history. This lack of documented history, combined with its modest size and rural location, suggests it may have served as a minor defensive residence or agricultural stronghold rather than a major fortification, typical of the smaller tower houses that dotted the Irish landscape during the late medieval and early modern periods.