This four-storey square tower, measuring roughly 7.6 metres by 6 metres, rises from a slight rise in the landscape. Built from roughly coursed rubble stone with walls 1.2 metres thick, it originally featured a gabled roof over the third floor and a subtle base batter that gave the structure added stability.

The tower's defensive origins are still visible despite later modifications that transformed it into a more domestic dwelling. The original entrance in the northeast wall, once protected by a machicolation at wall-walk level for dropping unpleasant surprises on unwelcome visitors, has been blocked up; replaced by a flat-headed doorway inserted into the southeast wall. Inside, a spiral staircase in the eastern corner once connected all floors, though it's now blocked between ground and first floor levels, with the upper steps broken away. The ground floor retains its barrel vault ceiling, impressively constructed using wicker centring and oriented northeast to southwest.

The conversion to a house brought several changes, most notably at first-floor level where a fireplace was inserted into the northwest wall, cleverly repurposing the original garderobe chute as a flue and adding a tall rectangular chimney stack. This modification shortened the garderobe chambers on both the first and second floors. Windows throughout the tower show signs of enlargement or blocking, particularly the brick-arched window on the second floor's northeast gable. The upper floors once had wooden flooring supported by wall corbels and sockets for wall-plates in the gable ends. At the southern angle, corbels mark where a bartizan once projected from the wall-walk level, corresponding with a curved niche visible inside at third-floor level. Victorian outhouses attached to the northeast wall and a demesne wall to the east, likely replacing an earlier bawn wall, complete this fascinating glimpse into centuries of Irish architectural adaptation.