This raised circular platform, measuring roughly 50 metres east to west and 48 metres north to south, sits about 90 metres south of properties that once faced the main street of medieval Granard. The site’s strategic position, 500 metres east of a motte and bailey castle and near a possible medieval church, places it right at the heart of what was once a bustling Anglo-Norman borough.

The monument consists of an elevated area, rising between one and 1.8 metres high, enclosed by an earthen and stone bank that runs along its southern and western sides. Where the bank doesn’t extend, a sharp scarp defines the platform’s edge. Evidence suggests the original builders cut into the hillock and levelled it to create this raised foundation, leaving traces of a berm, a flat ledge about six metres wide, visible along the southwestern and western sides. Though time has erased signs of the original entrance and any defensive ditch that might have surrounded it, a gap in the southern section now serves as a passage for livestock.

What makes Bakers Fort particularly puzzling is its wetland setting, unusual for a typical Irish ringfort. Its central location within the medieval borough hints that it might have served as an Anglo-Norman manor house or the fortified home of a prominent borough family. Interestingly, the structure bears a striking resemblance to an excavated site at Tulsk in County Roscommon, where archaeologists uncovered both a ringfort and a tower house occupying the same location, suggesting these monuments could serve multiple purposes across different periods.