Nothing marks the spot today. The tower that once stood here, known as Prickett's Tower, was a mural tower, meaning it formed part of the city's defensive wall circuit, projecting outward to allow defenders to cover the face of the wall on either side. It is gone without visible trace, yet the documentary record surrounding it is unusually precise, preserving its dimensions, its ownership history, and even the height of the quay wall beside it.

The tower's origins reach back to the late thirteenth century, when Dublin's civic records, compiled in what is known as the Dublin White Book, recorded a grant of a tower on the riverbank to a man named John le Warre. The grant described it as standing outside and opposite the King's Gate, and was made in perpetuity at an annual rent of half a mark of silver. By 1285 the city was granting a small adjacent parcel of ground, just twenty feet wide, to a William de Bristol, and in 1322 a further neighbouring plot was surrendered to the city by one Robert de Notyngham, having previously been held by a Wulfran of Bristol. The tower had acquired its more familiar name by 1585, when a detailed survey recorded it simply as being in a Mr Prickett's possession. That survey is remarkably specific: the tower measured roughly nine metres by eight and a half metres at its base, with walls a metre thick and rising to just over ten metres, topped by a turret on its eastern side containing two small vaults. There was a single timber loft inside and, notably, only one window, facing east. The same survey placed it 257 metres east of Bridge Gate and 108 metres west of Fian's Castle along Wood Quay. A gunpowder explosion in March 1597 is thought to have damaged or destroyed it.

There is nothing to see at the site now, and that is partly the point. The junction of Winetavern Street and Merchant's Quay is unremarkable streetscape, close to the Four Courts end of the quays. Visitors with an interest in medieval Dublin tend to focus on the nearby Dublinia museum or the remnants of city wall still visible in the vicinity of Cook Street, a short walk inland. John Speed's map of Dublin, published in 1610, shows Merchant's Quay and the Winetavern Street junction clearly labelled, and offers the best contemporary visual sense of where the tower sat in relation to the wider riverfront. The Urban Survey of Dublin City, compiled by Bradley and King in 1987, remains the most accessible scholarly summary of what the records tell us, and notes that the wall itself appears to have been absent along this stretch, making the tower something of an isolated riverbank sentinel rather than part of a continuous defensive line.