Muckrach Castle

Muckrach Castle, dated 1598 and restored around 1978, is a square three-storey tower house with an attic. It features a stair drum tower at the northwest corner that is corbelled out to a square shape at the upper two storeys, and a corbelled turret at the opposite angle. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings. There is also a single-storey circular rubble tower at the south, which is linked to the main building by a short section of former barmkin wall.

The doorway is located in the southwest re-entrant angle and has a dated and inscribed plaque above it. Stairs leading to the second and third floors are found in an additional turret within the re-entrant angle, supported at the second floor level by a squinch arch. The turret has a conical slate roof with a finial.

On the south elevation, there is one large window, likely a later enlargement, that lights the first-floor hall. The remaining windows are small, some quite diminutive, and there is a wallhead gabled dormer on the east side. Most windows feature either four or twelve-pane glazing. Additionally, there are slit vents on the southeast bartizan, in the basement, and in the detached tower at the south. The castle has end stacks and a local slate roof.