The Civil Survey of 1654-6 records that these lands once held ‘a Bawne & a thatcht house’, which by 1640 belonged to one Benet Sall, described rather pointedly as an ‘Alderman Irish Papist’ from Cashel. Today, what survives of this defensive structure offers a tangible link to an era when such fortified enclosures were essential for protecting both people and livestock.

The most striking feature that remains is the northwest corner of the bawn, complete with a circular turret standing 2.65 metres high and projecting 2.5 metres from the wall. Built from roughly coursed limestone rubble, these walls have endured centuries of Irish weather. From this turret, a wall approximately 60 centimetres thick extends eastward for just over 18 metres, whilst later farm buildings have been grafted onto the original structure; a stone outbuilding continues westward from the turret. About 8.5 metres further east stands a house that likely marks the northeast corner of the original bawn, its walls measuring a consistent 60 to 65 centimetres thick.

The southern and western walls of the bawn appear to have been incorporated into later farm outbuildings, with the rear wall of structures to the southwest possibly preserving much of the original defensive perimeter, though heavy ivy growth obscures the external southwest corner. If these surviving walls do indeed trace the original footprint, the bawn would have measured approximately 37 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west; a substantial fortified farmyard that speaks to both the prosperity and the insecurity of its original owners in pre-Cromwellian Ireland.