Whilst the castle and church that once dominated this landscape are no longer visible above ground, lying some 60 metres east and 90 metres south southeast respectively, the surviving western wall of the bawn tells its own compelling story. According to the Civil Survey of 1652;54, the estate belonged to one Jeffry Mocler of Moclerstowne Esquire, described as an ‘Irish Papist’, who maintained both a castle and a ‘tenantable’ bawn on the property in 1640.

The substantial surviving section of the western wall stretches for over 60 metres, though both corners have been lost to time. Built from limestone rubble in rough courses, the wall features an external base batter measuring 0.8 metres high and 0.15 metres wide along its southern portion. Rather intriguingly, the wall doesn’t follow a perfectly straight line but has a pronounced kink roughly halfway along its length. The construction itself varies considerably; the northern section spans approximately 30 metres with a thickness of 1.54 metres and reaches 3.4 metres in height, whilst the southern portion is notably narrower at just 1 metre thick.

Evidence suggests there may have been a gatehouse at the northern end of the wall, where architectural features hint at a more complex structure. Here, visitors can observe a recess measuring 2.3 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep in the internal wall face, alongside what appears to be the remains of an inwardly projecting return on the south side. The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1840 marks this location as ‘Battery’, likely referring to the bawn wall itself, though a modern gate and its pier have since disrupted the northern portion of the original structure. A breach 2 metres wide has also been created through the bawn, positioned 8.4 metres from the southern end, presumably to provide more recent access through the historic fortification.