The site, located near a church to the west, was documented in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 as an ‘old castle and Bawne out of repaire’, suggesting the fortification had already fallen into considerable disrepair by the mid-17th century. Today, no visible traces remain above ground; the original structures were likely demolished when a 19th-century house and modern farm buildings were constructed on the site.

The Ordnance Survey Letters from the 1830s provide a tantalising glimpse of what remained in living memory. Local tradition held that a small, two-storey gabled building with a substantial fireplace and chimney in its north wall was the castle’s original kitchen. This modest structure, which survived into the 19th century, represented the last physical link to the medieval fortification that once dominated this patch of Tipperary farmland.

The bawn, a defensive wall that would have enclosed the castle and its outbuildings, has similarly vanished without trace. These fortified enclosures were once common features of the Irish landscape, particularly during the plantation period, providing protection for both the castle’s inhabitants and their livestock. The complete disappearance of both castle and bawn at Ballymurreen speaks to centuries of agricultural development and modernisation that have transformed this corner of rural Ireland, leaving only documentary evidence and local folklore to mark where this piece of medieval architecture once stood.