The castle has stood here since at least 1574, when historical records show it belonged to one Rolland Skeret. Today, the rectangular four-storey tower remains in fair condition despite significant damage to its southeastern and southwestern walls, offering visitors a tangible connection to Ireland’s turbulent medieval past.

The tower’s original dimensions, roughly 9.3 metres long by 7.5 metres wide, housed a cleverly designed interior that maximised both defence and comfort. Each of the first three floors contained a main chamber with a smaller subsidiary room tucked into the southeastern corner, where the stairwell spiralled upward through the building. Between the third and fourth storeys, builders installed a stone vault; a common defensive feature that prevented fire from spreading upward whilst providing structural support. The northwestern wall still shows evidence of a latrine chute, a reminder that even medieval castle dwellers valued their conveniences.

Architectural details that survive include single-light windows with varied head designs; circular, flat, and ogee-shaped openings that would have allowed defenders to monitor approaches whilst admitting precious light. Most intriguingly, the fourth storey appears to have concealed a hidden chamber beneath its southwestern floor, though much of this upper level and the defensive parapets above have long since crumbled away. The remaining doorway position in the southeastern wall and the overall layout speak to the standardised design of Irish tower houses, yet each surviving stone tells its own story of five centuries of Galway’s history.