The tower house remains measure approximately 8.6 metres east to west and 8.5 metres north to south, built from uncoursed rubble with walls between 1.3 and 1.5 metres thick. The southern wall stands as the castle’s most impressive survivor, reaching three metres in height at its eastern end. This wall extends westward for about 16 metres total, likely forming part of a bawn; a defensive courtyard wall typical of Irish tower houses; before turning northward for another 3.5 metres, though only a single course of stone remains of this section.

A gap measuring 1.5 metres wide in the southern wall probably marks the original doorway, with a small segment of wall extending about two metres beyond it. The castle’s builders chose their location carefully, positioning the structure on the southeastern edge of a much older oval enclosure. This earlier fortification spans 44 metres east to west and 33.5 metres north to south, surrounded by a flat-bottomed defensive ditch, or fosse, that’s nearly six metres wide and 0.7 metres deep.

While no clear evidence of a causeway or defensive bank survives today, traces of an entrance can be spotted near the suspected doorway in the south wall, suggesting how residents and visitors once accessed this fortified site. The castle’s position, taking advantage of natural slopes for defence whilst incorporating earlier earthworks, demonstrates the practical military thinking of medieval Irish castle builders who made the most of both landscape and existing fortifications.