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Additional stories are missing from the top of the tower. An attacker would have been targeted by the arrow slits and windows, which also give fine views of the landscape. The ivy is no longer on the tower (as of 2009-10).

The door and the window immediately above the door, as well as the rectangular opening on the same level as the door (in the staircase/garderobe block), are all modern insertions. The arrow loop on the second level of the tower block is an original…

The visitor's first view inside the tower house is of the cellar, which would have been used to store goods.

Entry to the castle is locked and forbidden.

Close-up of lichen and plant life on the nineteenth-century stone addition to the castle. Up to six hundred years of exposure have taken their toll on the castle, as have raids, renovators and treasure-hunters.

Bird's-eye view plan of excavations in the mid-1990s under the direction of Eric Klingelhofer. Only parts of the compound were excavated.

Note the outlines of a "Tower House", "Parlor" and "Great Hall" at the bottom of the illustration. A "bawn"…

Finds from the archaeological excavations in the mid-1990s.
1-4 copper alloy
1 buckle plate
2 stick pin
3 sewing pin
4 miniature chape (i.e, the protective end of a knife sheath)

5 bone tuning peg (for an instrument, such as a lute)

6-12…

Tower House Interior. View from south. Except for the Chapel on the fourth floor (on the right, middle), the floors above the third story no longer exist. Their reconstruction here is entirely hypothetical.

Tower House Interior. View from north. The 'Raleigh window' can be seen in the third-story Parlor. The floors above it no longer exist.

Privy. View from south.