What remains today is primarily the north wall and northeast corner of a two-storey tower house, constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble. The building originally measured approximately 7.3 metres north to south and 8 metres east to west, featuring a barrel vault running north to south over the ground floor. The first floor retains evidence of a large opening with a segmental arch, whilst remnants of a corbel to the north indicate where an attic floor once existed. Historical records tell us the castle remained largely intact until 1801, when much of it collapsed, leaving only one wall standing to a height of about 20 feet.

The castle sits within what was once a bawn, a fortified enclosure typical of Irish tower houses, measuring roughly 22 metres by 27 metres. This defensive perimeter can still be traced through low banks about 4 metres wide and an outer fosse, or ditch. The immediate surroundings reveal numerous earthworks that may date to the medieval period, though the castle’s location on wet, marshy ground with a stream to the southeast means some of these features could relate to later drainage efforts. A small circular earthwork, defined by a half-metre high scarp, encircles the castle at approximately 10 metres from its walls, whilst a large rectangular platform measuring about 20 by 25 metres sits 20 metres to the west; this latter feature possibly dates to eighteenth or nineteenth century land improvement schemes.

According to the nineteenth century historian Carrigan, this “broken castle” likely marks the site of the Grange, or farm house, belonging to the nearby priory. The area once supported various medieval structures including a priory mill, known locally as the Black Mill, which stood in a small field south of the castle. Its successor operated as a fulling mill for processing cloth until the late 1800s, demonstrating how these medieval sites continued to serve practical purposes well into the industrial age. The extensive earthworks visible in the field between the castle and priory ruins suggest this was once a bustling medieval settlement, now reduced to subtle undulations in the landscape that hint at its former importance.