The site, recorded in the Civil Survey of 1654-6, was once described as ‘one good Bawne & a Castle wanting repaire, with severall small Cottages’, with Patrick Hackett listed as the proprietor in 1640. Today, visitors can trace the outline of this defensive structure, which projects northward from the tower house, enclosing three sides of the building whilst leaving the eastern side open.

The bawn wall, reaching heights of up to 2.9 metres in places, extends approximately 53.2 metres from east to west. At the eastern end of the tower house’s north wall, the bawn forms a gateway, complete with a basal plinth that suggests more elaborate gate structures once stood here. The defensive perimeter can still be traced along its circuit; the return wall stands some 23.3 metres north of the tower house, surviving for about 15.7 metres, though its northern face has largely collapsed and become overgrown. The northwest corner remains visible, albeit in ruinous condition, with gaps appearing throughout the surviving 20-metre stretch of the southern section.

Within this fortified enclosure, about 10 metres north of the tower house, lies a well measuring 1.2 metres in diameter, which likely served as the original water supply for the castle’s inhabitants. Whilst much of the southern wall has disappeared beneath the grass, with only protruding stones hinting at its former path, the site continues to reveal the practical defensive architecture that characterised Irish tower houses during this turbulent period. The combination of residential tower and protective bawn represents a typical response to the security concerns of landed families in early modern Ireland.