The castle was once home to Mr Fulwar, son of Archbishop Fulwar who died in 1667, and according to the Civil Survey of 1654-6, the property under Redmond Magrath’s ownership in 1640 included ‘a Castle & a Bawne with a Dozen Cabbins and a pleasant seat’. Today, whilst the land to the west and east has been reclaimed and reseeded, the rough grassland to the north remains untouched, preserving something of the castle’s original setting.

The fortified house itself is a rectangular block measuring 8.5 metres north to south and 16 metres east to west, with thick limestone walls of 1.7 metres. Originally, circular corner towers graced the northeast and northwest angles, though now only fragments remain, standing just 1.2 metres high. The most impressive surviving feature is the south wall, which still reaches two storeys in height and contains a double-splayed window at its centre. At first floor level, there was once a mural chamber accessed by stairs built into the wall’s thickness. The building’s defensive nature is further emphasised by the remains of a bawn wall extending from the southwest corner and a moat that once protected the north and east sides, fed by a mill stream that also powered a corn mill 360 metres to the northwest.

Archaeological evidence suggests this was likely a plantation castle dating from the 17th century, complete with its defensive bawn and outer moat. A particularly intriguing find is a large limestone jamb, chamfered and rebated, lying in the courtyard west of the house; this appears to be a late medieval piece, possibly from a gateway into the bawn or from the main doorway of the fortified house itself. Though much of the structure has collapsed into rubble, making interior access impossible, the surviving elements paint a vivid picture of a once formidable residence that combined domestic comfort with military defence during one of Ireland’s most turbulent periods.