This rectangular earthwork, measuring approximately 46 metres northwest to southeast and 31 metres northeast to southwest, rises about a metre above the surrounding fields at the base of a west-facing slope. Though no stonework remains visible today, this modest elevation marks where a castle and bawn once stood, their presence recorded in historical documents rather than physical ruins.

The Civil Survey of 1654-6 describes the site as ‘a stump of a Castle and a Bawne’, suggesting that even by the mid-17th century, the fortification was already in considerable decay. Records from 1640 list John Purcell and William Prendergast as proprietors, providing a glimpse into the site’s ownership during the tumultuous period before Cromwell’s arrival in Ireland. The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1843 marked this location as ‘Site of Castle’, and the accompanying OS Letters noted that ‘near it stands a part of the walls’, indicating that some masonry was still visible in the 19th century, though these remnants have since vanished entirely.

The castle’s original water sources, a well and stream shown on later Ordnance Survey maps immediately north of the site, have also disappeared from view, leaving only the built-up platform as evidence of human intervention in this landscape. What remains is essentially an archaeological footprint; a subtle reminder of the defensive structures that once dotted the Irish countryside, now readable only through careful observation of ground levels and historical documentation rather than any standing architecture.