The building had not been lived in within anyone's living memory, and whatever remained of its former presence on the landscape was cleared away with considerable finality. What lingers today is a scatter of scrap metal, a tangle of scrub and nettles on an east-facing slope, and a limestone wall and gable belonging to a former outbuilding. The well survives too, built of red-brick to a depth of around six metres before giving way to stone, though it is now sealed beneath a concrete slab.

The house appeared on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, labelled as 'Loughlohery Castle' and shown with laid-out gardens, suggesting it was a property of some consequence at that point. Its origins may reach back considerably further. The Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, a Cromwellian-era land record compiled after the upheavals of the preceding decade, contains a reference to 'a house and a garden in the Towne of Loghlochry', which may correspond to this site. That is a span of more than three centuries between the earliest possible mention and the moment the building was reduced to rubble, a long arc of occupation, decline, and erasure. About 400 metres to the south-west, the older silhouette of a medieval tower house is still visible, a reminder that the area had layers of settlement long before the red-brick house was ever built. Tower houses were fortified stone residences common across Ireland from the late medieval period, typically rectangular in plan and several storeys high.