This limestone tower house, measuring approximately 16.8 by 8.75 metres externally, has been absorbed into a working farm complex, with agricultural buildings now pressed against its eastern and western walls. Built from roughly coursed limestone rubble with well dressed quoins, the structure retains its pebble dash render and limewash finish, though only survives to its second floor level. The castle’s walls vary in thickness from 1.27 metres on the north side to 1.63 metres on the south, featuring a distinctive base batter that extends 1.8 metres high.

The castle’s violent history is well documented in contemporary records. The Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656 describes ‘the walles of a Castle and a little castle both burned, a slate house, and a bawne about them’, indicating the site once comprised multiple defensive structures. During the Confederate Wars in 1641, the castle endured a five week siege when it sheltered nine soldiers alongside forty women and children. Though the bawn wall was breached, the defenders eventually surrendered and were allowed safe passage to Cahir. Less fortunate were the fifty warders who defended the castle in 1647 when Lord Inchiquin stormed the fortress, putting them all to the sword before burning the surrounding corn stores and nearby settlements.

Entry to the tower house was through a round headed doorway on the western wall’s southern end, distinguished by its dressed stonework with drafted margins and parallel lines of punch tooling, plus a yett hole at its apex. Inside, a small lobby led to the ground floor chamber and a mural stairway ascending along the western wall, though both passages are now blocked. The main ground floor chamber featured windows in the south and east walls, whilst a barrel vaulted chamber occupied the northern section. The first floor, accessed via the mural stair, rested on wooden beams supported by corbels and was lit by single light windows. It included a garderobe in the northeast corner and a small mural chamber above the entrance lobby, possibly containing a murder hole. By the 1840s, the castle faced demolition; OS Letters record that the proprietor was actively dismantling it, though fortunately the complete destruction never materialised, leaving us with this evocative ruin that bridges centuries of Irish history.