This rectangular tower house appears on the 1657 Down Survey map of Foyran parish, positioned just north of a roadway that led to nearby Finnea castle and bridge. The modern road still follows this ancient route, connecting the present to a time when Edward Symon held these lands in 1641, according to the survey’s terrier records.

Today, only the south wall of this once formidable structure remains standing, rising about nine metres and cloaked in ivy. The castle’s internal dimensions measured roughly 7.8 metres east to west and 5.4 metres north to south, with walls between 1.1 and 1.4 metres thick. Built from coursed, mortared limestone with carefully dressed corner stones, the south wall shows signs of its former grandeur: a ground floor window set within a large recessed opening, and directly above it, a round headed window at first floor level, though both are now damaged or obscured by vegetation. Photographs from the 1970s reveal joist holes that once supported the castle’s wooden floors, and notably, there’s no evidence of a stone vault over the ground floor, which might suggest this tower house dates from a later period than some of its contemporaries.

The interior has sadly collapsed into rubble, mixed with modern rubbish, making it difficult to determine where the original entrance stood, though it may have been at the north end of the east wall. Unlike many tower houses of its era, Togher Castle shows no visible traces of a protective bawn wall or earthwork defences that might have once enclosed it. What remains is a haunting fragment of a building that once commanded this stretch of Westmeath countryside, its sole surviving wall a testament to centuries of Irish history.