Despite its location within Tintern parish, the castle curiously doesn’t appear in the abbey’s records at the time of the Suppression. The earliest documented reference comes from 1640, when James Rochfort owned what was described as a small castle ‘out of repair’ along with 120 acres of surrounding land.

The square tower house, measuring roughly 7.5 metres on each side, rises to three storeys with characteristic features like a base batter and quoins. Entry is gained through a lintelled doorway on the northwest wall, which leads into a lobby and ground floor containing gun loops for defence. A mural staircase winds upward through the northwest wall, providing access to each floor whilst cleverly concealing an oubliette; a hidden chamber measuring just 2.2 metres by 0.8 metres, accessible from the first-floor landing. The first floor sits beneath a vault running northwest to southeast, whilst the second floor boasts more elaborate features including a two-light window, fireplace, and a corner chamber equipped with additional gun loops.

Evidence suggests the tower house once connected to an attached building, now largely vanished except for wall fragments at the western angle. The defensive perimeter included a bawn wall extending 16 metres southeast from the eastern corner, terminating in the remains of a circular tower. Archaeological monitoring in 2000 of nearby roadworks revealed no additional material, though traces of what might be another section of bawn wall can be seen incorporated into a road bank running southwest. The castle’s defensive features, from gun loops to the hidden oubliette, paint a picture of a fortified residence designed for uncertain times in late Tudor Ireland.