The tower house, which once stood proudly on this ridge with clear views to its neighbour Loughlohery Castle some 200 metres to the northwest, was demolished in the 1940s according to local accounts, its stones carted away for other purposes. Today, visitors will find little more than scrub-covered ground with limestone rubble and the occasional glimpse of stone foundations, though one small clump of mortared masonry, measuring roughly 0.7m by 0.5m, still clings to existence just south of a modern field boundary.

Historical records paint a fuller picture of what once stood here. The Civil Survey of 1654-56 mentions Robert Mageon, an Irish Catholic gentleman who owned the lands of Loghlochrybegg, noting that “the walls of another burned castle” stood on his property. By the time of the Ordnance Survey Letters in the 19th century, the castle was already in ruins, though considerably more substantial ones than remain today. The surveyors described an impressive east wall standing about 15 metres high, complete with a stone chimney at its top and rough cast exterior. The interior, which measured approximately 12 metres in length, retained its plaster finish. Portions of the north and south walls survived to their original height, with the north wall an impressive 2.13 metres thick and over 10 metres long. Stone arches that once supported upper floors were still visible, along with the joist holes that held the timber lofts.

A 1934 inspection by J.H. Williams provides the most detailed account of the castle’s architecture before its final demolition. The three-storey tower house featured a rough stone vault over the second storey and two flat-headed windows with splayed openings at ground floor level in the west wall. A garderobe chute in the southwest corner provided medieval sanitation, whilst a window with hood-moulding at third floor level added a touch of architectural refinement. The remains of what may have been a bartizan at the southwest corner, supported by corbels, suggested defensive capabilities, whilst a possible bawn wall extending from the north wall hinted at a larger defensive complex. Based on these architectural features, historian Harold Leask dated the tower house to the 16th or early 17th century, placing it firmly within Ireland’s tradition of fortified domestic architecture during a turbulent period of the country’s history.