The building is a square keep to which two wings have been added at right angles during the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

He, however, lived in London and allowed the castle to deteriorate, but after his death it passed to Councillor John Harvey, who restored it.

[2] Within three weeks of occupation, on 18 December, Chris and his older brother Richard Davison discovered explosives, including sticks of gelignite and gunpowder, in a secret passage in a tower within the castle as they were exploring.

Their father stated that judging by the paper on the gelignite, it was made in Glasgow in 1880.

[3] In July 1961, a licence was granted to Maeve Davison (née de Burgh) for the castle to be run as a hotel, which she ran with her husband and her father, Eric de Burgh.