Dating back to at least 1574, when records show it belonged to Stephan Lynch, this four-storey rectangular tower rises from a basement level, measuring roughly 9 metres long by 8 metres wide. The main entrance sits centrally in the eastern wall, leading to a lobby that connects to the ground floor, spiral stairs in the southeast corner, and basement stairs in the northeast. The tower’s defensive features include horizontal gun slits at ground level and stone vaults separating the basement from the ground floor, and the second from the third floor.

The interior layout reveals the careful planning typical of such fortified homes, with subsidiary chambers and latrines positioned south of the main rooms on the ground and first floors, whilst the second floor contains an intramural passage in the same location. Fireplaces warm the north walls of the basement, second, and third floors, and two small chambers, one cleverly concealed, occupy the space within the vault between the second and third floors. The windows throughout display the Gothic style of the period, featuring single or double lights with distinctive ogival heads. Perhaps most intriguing is the sheela-na-gig carved into the spandrel of a single-light ogee-headed window on the second floor’s south wall; a medieval fertility figure that adds an element of mystery to the tower’s stone facade.

The gabled roof once housed a garret and featured defensive wall-walks with machicolations along the north, south, and west parapets, allowing defenders to drop projectiles on attackers below. Evidence suggests a later eastern extension, possibly dating to the 17th century; traces of its high-pitched roofline remain visible, along with a doorway inserted off the spiral stairs and a raised platform that likely supported a two-storey building. Now designated as National Monument 609 under Irish law, this tower house stands as one of County Galway’s finest examples of late medieval defensive architecture, its stones bearing witness to centuries of Irish history.