The site once hosted an impressive castle featuring three towers; two square and one circular, with connecting buildings that were likely incorporated into the defensive bawn wall. These towers, reaching approximately four storeys high, were topped with crenellated battlements and featured flat-headed windows adorned with hood-mouldings, suggesting they served as part of the bawn’s defensive system. The bawn itself earned a mention in the Civil Survey of 1654-6, marking its historical significance in the region.

Around 1820, fire consumed the original castle, prompting the landowner to embark on an extraordinarily ambitious project: constructing a full-scale replica of Warwick Castle on the site. This would have been quite the architectural statement in rural Tipperary, bringing a slice of medieval English grandeur to the Irish countryside. However, the project came to an abrupt halt following the landowner’s untimely death, leaving the grand vision unrealised and the site awaiting its next chapter.

Today, visitors won’t find the intended Warwick Castle replica or the original fortress, but rather a nineteenth-century house that was eventually built on the historic site. A sketch of the original castle, still in the possession of the current landowner, provides the only visual record of what once stood here, offering a tantalising glimpse of the medieval stronghold that once dominated this corner of Tipperary.