What was once the proud seat of the principal branch of the Shortall family for centuries has been reduced to little more than wall footings and grassy mounds in a pasture field. The castle appears to have stood on the western side of what may have been a protective bawn, though this rectangular enclosure could equally have served a late 17th-century house that sits about 30 metres to the southeast.

Today, visitors can trace sections of wall footings running northwest to southeast, measuring about 0.9 metres wide but rising barely 6 centimetres above ground level. Another stretch of walling, some 15.5 metres long, runs perpendicular from the western end of these footings; both are likely remnants of the original castle structure. A farm track has disturbed the southwestern end of these walls, whilst a low mound nearby may be the grass-covered ruins of an outbuilding marked on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map. The site offers good views in all directions except upslope to the south, allowing visitors to appreciate its strategic positioning.

Local folklore adds intrigue to these modest remains. Writing in 1905, historian William Carrigan recorded that an underground passage once ran beneath the road, connecting the castle with the adjoining Ballylarkin church. A local man named Hickey claimed to have seen this passage many years before Carrigan’s time. Post-1932 correspondence in the Office of Public Works files mentions additional features now lost, including traces of a double fosse or swamp for defence, and foundations of a round building with walls three feet thick that may have served as a dovecote or a defensive round tower within the castle’s stockades.