What remains is a rectangular tower measuring roughly 10 by 11 metres, built from roughly coursed limestone rubble with a distinctive base batter; a sloping foundation that helped defend against undermining during sieges. Though the southwest corner has collapsed and the carefully dressed corner stones have long since been pilfered for other buildings, the structure still tells a compelling story of medieval Irish fortification.

The original entrance on the southeast wall once led visitors through a carefully planned defensive layout: first into a lobby, then onwards to the main chamber, with a small room and guard room branching off to the southwest. A spiral staircase tucked into the eastern corner connected the floors, lit by two narrow windows as it wound upwards. The ground floor’s main chamber features a vaulted ceiling and remarkably preserved wicker-work, whilst deep window embrasures throughout the building provided defensive positions for archers. These narrow openings, including one in a splayed recess beside the doorway that illuminated the entrance lobby, were designed to let light in whilst keeping attackers out.

The first floor chamber, now grass-covered and open to the elements, contains similar defensive window embrasures and even boasts a garderobe built into the northeast wall; a medieval toilet that would have projected from the castle wall. Low stone walls extending from the east and west corners of the tower hint at a larger complex, possibly the remains of a bawn wall that would have enclosed a courtyard for livestock and provided an additional layer of defence. These fragmentary walls remind us that Irish tower houses were rarely solitary structures but rather the centrepieces of larger fortified homesteads.