Built between the late 1500s and early 1600s, this four-storey limestone structure rises from the pastoral landscape, its roughly coursed rubble walls still displaying the architectural ambitions of its original builders. Though time has taken its toll, with the east wall collapsed and the southwest and northwest corner stones robbed to a height of 3.2 metres, the tower’s defensive features remain remarkably legible; a slight base batter, remnants of a basal plinth, and walls nearly 1.8 metres thick speak to its original purpose as both residence and fortress.

The interior reveals fascinating details about daily life in a 16th-century Irish tower house. The ground floor, now filled with rubble, once housed a lobby with a guardroom to the north and a spiral staircase tucked into the southeast corner, though only a single step survives. Moving upward through the timber-floored levels, defensive gun loops flank single-light windows on the first floor, whilst the second floor preserves evidence of more comfortable living quarters, including the flue of a former fireplace and a large slop-stone projecting from the north wall. A mural passage in the south wall leads to a garderobe chute, essentially a medieval toilet that exits through the west face; an earthen bank curving around the western side might mark an associated cesspit. The third floor features more refined flat-headed two-light windows with decorative hood-mouldings, and the roofline once boasted a stepped parapet on the north wall and a bartizan, or small turret, at the southwest corner.

Perhaps most intriguing are the tower’s decorative touches that hint at its builders’ cultural identity. Three triskele motifs, those distinctive triple spiral symbols so beloved in Celtic art, adorn a window jamb on the west wall’s ground floor; a remarkable detail given the punch-dressed and chamfered stonework throughout. Historical maps reveal changing perceptions of the site over time; the 1840 Ordnance Survey shows the tower within a rectangular enclosure, which by 1903 had been replaced or reinterpreted as a curving boundary. An earthen bank encircling the tower may be a tree-ring, a landscape feature designed for ornamental planting, suggesting the site’s evolution from defensive stronghold to picturesque ruin within the Irish countryside.