Nothing of it survives above ground today. The island itself had what the map suggests was a deliberate, somewhat formal boundary, and the building sat within a walled enclosure that may have been a bawn, the kind of defensive yard commonly associated with fortified houses in late medieval and early modern Ireland. A multi-arched stone bridge crossed the river to the east of the complex. What is striking is not so much the structure itself but its position: set apart from the town, enclosed, surrounded by water, and yet immediately adjacent to the town wall and the parish church.

The map, catalogued as TCD MS 1209/62, is one of the more detailed early cartographic records of an Irish provincial town, and this island feature caught the attention of the architectural historian Thomas, writing in 1992. He noted that the building's form was not unusual by the standards of Kilmallock's main street, where similar houses appeared, but that its setting was something else entirely. He raised the possibility that it could have been associated with the Bishop of Limerick, or with a noble of equivalent standing, the kind of person who could command both the resources and the political position to occupy a site so conspicuously separate from the ordinary fabric of the town. He also left open the possibility, without favouring it, that it might have been a church set within parkland rather than a private residence.

Kilmallock itself retains a good deal of its medieval fabric, including sections of the town wall, the collegiate church of Saints Peter and Paul, and the Dominican friary, all of which can be visited. The River Loobagh runs through the town and the area to the east of the walls is accessible on foot. The island described on the 1600 map has no visible remains, and there is no marker or signage pointing to where the house and its enclosure once stood. Anyone interested in reading the landscape against the old map will find the exercise absorbing precisely because there is so little left to see, only the river, the general topography, and the knowledge that something was there.