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A composite structure consisting of a tower house at the SW corner, a gatehouse to the N and a central two-storey building running E-W between keep and gatehouse, with stair tower at E, adjacent to keep and central range. The exact date of construction is unknown, but the surviving features seem to indicate a fifteenth century date. Probably constructed after 1483 when the area was granted to the Fitzgeralds. It was garrisoned in 1552 during Baltinglass Revolution and occupied by Confederate forces in 1645-7 (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 154; JKAS 1891-5, 3). It was extensively restored in 1849, and is now used as a hotel. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 3, 270-79).
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