This rectangular tower house, measuring roughly 7.2 metres by 6.1 metres, sits on level ground about 600 metres southeast of the local church. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 provides a fascinating snapshot of the area’s past, recording that a Mr. De la Sale owned 173 acres here in 1640, complete with ‘one small castle, one decayed chaple and nine tenements’. Today, that small castle stands as a weathered monument to Ireland’s turbulent history, though much of its dressed stone has long since been pilfered for other buildings.

What remains is still remarkably telling about how these structures functioned. You enter through a round-headed doorway on the northwest wall, though this was likely once an inner door accessed through a now-vanished lobby. The ground floor chamber reveals the practical design of these defensive homes, with two arched recesses in the southwest wall that probably held windows, now blocked up, and another recess on the northeast wall showing traces of a chimney flue. A single window opening survives towards the eastern end of the southeast wall, offering a glimpse of how light once filtered into this stone stronghold.

The first floor sits beneath a barrel-vaulted ceiling that runs northwest to southeast, originally constructed using wicker-centring and supported by corbels jutting from the walls. While a window in the southeast wall would have provided some natural light to this upper chamber, much of the northwest wall has crumbled away, taking with it any evidence of how residents moved between floors; if stairs existed at the northern corner, they’ve left no trace. The upper storeys have vanished entirely, and the top of the vault is now completely claimed by vegetation, creating an almost romantic ruin that captures both the ambition and eventual abandonment of this once-important local stronghold.