The site sits on flat ground with expansive views across the countryside, with a stream flowing 60 metres to the north and an ancient ringfort visible 270 metres to the northeast. While much of the surrounding land has been reclaimed and reseeded with grass, the areas to the north and northeast remain as rough grassland, preserving something of the landscape’s original character.

The fortified house was once home to the son of Archbishop Fulwar, who lived here following his father’s death in 1667. Historical records paint a vivid picture of the property in its heyday; the Civil Survey of 1654-6 describes it as belonging to Redmond Magrath in 1640, noting it comprised ‘a Castle & a Bawne with a Dozen Cabbins and a pleasant seat’. This description reveals not just a defensive structure, but a small community centred around the fortified house, complete with cabins for workers or tenants.

Today, visitors can trace the grass-covered foundations of the bawn wall, which once formed a defensive enclosure measuring approximately 38 metres north to south and 49 metres east to west. At the southwest corner of the fortified house, the wall footings stand about 0.3 metres high and 0.8 metres thick. A defensive moat, roughly 5.7 metres wide at the top and 0.5 metres deep, runs along the north and east sides of the house, likely fed by a mill stream as shown on early Ordnance Survey maps. A causeway, 3 metres wide, crosses the moat on the northern side, marking the original entrance to this once-formidable stronghold. The external wall facing is particularly well preserved where the bawn meets the northwest angle of the fortified house, offering tangible evidence of the site’s defensive architecture.