This six-storey rectangular tower house, measuring 10.8 metres long by 9.05 metres wide, was home to Tybbot McAwge in 1574 and later passed to the son of Tibbot Mac Davuck Burke. By 1608, an Inquisition at Galway recorded it amongst the castles belonging to Clanrickard, one of the most powerful Gaelic-Norman families in Connacht.

The tower’s construction showcases typical late medieval defensive architecture, built from roughly coursed stone blocks with ashlar quoins and a defensive base batter. Its original entrance in the northeast wall led to spiral stairs in the north corner, whilst the interior comprised multiple floors with varying layouts; the first four floors featured small subsidiary chambers northeast of the main rooms, but the fifth floor’s main chamber occupied the tower’s full width. Stone vaults separated the ground from the first floor and covered the fourth floor’s subsidiary chamber. The tower incorporated sophisticated defensive features including gun loops, machicolations supported by corbels, and multiple intramural passages whose purposes remain somewhat mysterious due to structural collapse. Windows progressed from simple single lights on lower floors to elegant twin light, ogee headed examples on the upper levels.

Unfortunately, time and weather have taken their toll on this historic structure. By the 1980s and 1990s, ivy covered walls showed dangerous structural cracks running from top to bottom along the northwest and southeast walls. The harsh winter of early 2011 proved catastrophic when the south corner collapsed entirely, taking with it significant portions of masonry from the southeast and southwest walls between the first floor and roof level, including one of the defensive machicolations. The tower sits within a small rectangular bawn with a later building extending from its northeast side and an outer bawn off the northwest wall, creating a complex of structures that once provided both residence and protection for its inhabitants.