The site overlooks boggy plains to the north, with traces of an ancient enclosure visible just 42 metres to the southeast. Today, only fragments remain of what was once a fortified compound, or bawn, that protected both castle and community during uncertain times.

The Civil Survey of 1654-6 offers a tantalising glimpse into the site’s history, recording simply “the walls of an old Bawne” and naming Thomas Magher of Bollybane, an Irish Catholic landowner, as proprietor during that period. According to Ordnance Survey letters from the 19th century, the castle keep once stood at the southeastern corner, where its foundations could still be faintly traced at the time of writing. A 1943 survey also documented foundations of several outbuildings to the south, though these have since vanished entirely from view.

What survives today are portions of the bawn’s northern and eastern walls, constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble bound with a poor quality mortar of sandy clay and pebbles. The interior contains several low mounds that hint at former structures, though their arrangement no longer follows any recognisable pattern. These weathered stones stand as silent witnesses to centuries of Irish history, from medieval fortification through Cromwellian conquest and beyond, offering visitors a chance to contemplate the layers of time embedded in the Tipperary landscape.