The abbey, visible 2.2 kilometres to the northwest, surrendered its lands during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, and the townland’s name suggests this was indeed one of its outfarms. By 1640, according to the Civil Survey, the castle belonged to Hierom Alexander of Dublin, a Protestant gentleman, though it was already noted as “wanting repaire”. Today, the tower house sits within a working farmyard, with modern farm buildings pressed against its ancient walls and a concrete facing applied to its northwest side, testament to its continued agricultural use through the centuries.

The tower house itself is a substantial structure measuring roughly 8 metres by 9 metres externally, built from coursed limestone rubble with a distinctive tall, slender base batter that rises 5 metres high. Originally three storeys with a barrel vault over the first floor, the building also features a fourth floor mural chamber along the northwest wall. The main entrance, now blocked with concrete, was once protected by a murder hole in the lobby above, accessible from a wall cupboard on the first floor. A particularly clever defensive feature was the recess cut into the base batter above the doorway, designed to help projectiles dropped from the machicolation at parapet level find their mark. The interior follows a typical tower house plan, with mural stairs winding through the walls to connect the floors, each level having served different purposes; from storage at ground level to the principal chambers on the upper floors, complete with fireplaces, garderobes, and window seats.

The architectural details reveal both the defensive nature and domestic comfort of the tower house. Small lobbies at the top of the stairs on the second and third floors provided access to the main chambers and additional mural chambers along the southwest wall. The third floor features elegant arcades in the northeast and southeast walls, most containing flat headed single light windows, whilst one remains blank to accommodate the flue from the fireplace below. Evidence of later modifications includes 19th and 20th century floor joists inserted into the walls and the lowering of ground floor ceiling supports to create more headroom on the first floor. Though time and agricultural use have taken their toll, with many windows broken out and the parapet level lost, enough remains to understand how this tower house functioned as both a defensive structure and a comfortable residence for those managing the abbey’s agricultural interests in this corner of Tipperary.