The fortified enclosure, which once measured roughly 58 metres from east to west and 40 metres from north to south, was substantially damaged during land clearance operations around the year 2000, leaving behind fragmentary evidence of what was once an impressive defensive structure.

The bawn’s sub-rectangular shape was defined by a collapsed stone wall that originally stood about 1.9 metres high on its exterior face, though the interior height was considerably lower at around half a metre. The wall, approximately 1.5 metres thick, had largely tumbled down on all sides by the time of archaeological survey, with inner facing stones surviving only along the northern side and a small section to the west. Three circular towers once reinforced the enclosure at its northwest, northeast, and southeast corners, their ruins still visible amongst the debris. A gap measuring about 1.5 metres wide in the northern end of the western wall likely marks the original entrance to the fortification.

Archaeological surveys conducted in the late 20th century, documented in both the Archaeological Inventory of County Louth (1986) and the Archaeological Survey of County Louth (1991), recorded an intriguing additional feature: the remains of a semi-circular enclosure, roughly six metres across, adjoining the main structure near the northeast corner. This secondary enclosure was already partly obscured by a modern field wall at the time of survey, adding another layer to the site’s complex history of construction, decay, and reuse.