What survives today is a low mound roughly 30 metres across and just 30 centimetres high, composed of stone footings that once supported the walls of a formidable structure. The site occupies a strategic position on poorly drained high ground with commanding views in all directions, whilst a small stream runs to the north, providing what would have been an essential water source for the castle’s inhabitants.

The castle’s confused and fragmented remains suggest it has been quarried for building stone over the centuries, particularly evident in the damaged sections to the southeast and southwest. Three field boundaries now intersect the mound, carving through what was once a unified defensive structure. Despite this disturbance, the unreclaimed field containing the castle likely preserves significant undisturbed archaeology beneath its surface, offering tantalising possibilities for future investigation.

Historical records provide a glimpse of the castle in its heyday; in 1640, Nicholas Fanning of Ballingarry was recorded as the proprietor of what was described as ‘a good castle with a tatcht house & some cabbins and a Mill standing upon a little brooke neare the castle’. This watermill, positioned about 200 metres northwest of the castle, along with a church and graveyard 160 metres to the southeast, formed a small but complete medieval settlement. Today, these neighbouring monuments help paint a picture of rural Irish life in the 17th century, when castles served not just as defensive structures but as the administrative and economic hearts of their communities.