The site, now part of a National Monument, centres around a tower house and its adjoining gatehouse on the western side of a large rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 60 metres east to west and 40 metres north to south. Whilst the space currently serves as a working farmyard with modern lean-to structures built against the southern wall, the bones of its medieval past remain clearly visible in the stone walls that still define its perimeter.

The enclosing walls, though reaching impressive heights of up to 3 metres in places, are remarkably thin at just half a metre thick. Intriguingly, they don’t appear to be bonded to the tower house and gatehouse, suggesting they may have been rebuilt at a later date. However, their alignment likely follows the original course of a medieval bawn wall; a defensive enclosure typical of Irish fortified houses. Evidence supporting this theory includes the presence of the gatehouse itself and a doorway at first floor level in the tower house’s northeast gable wall, which would have provided access to a wall walk along the top of the defensive walls, allowing guards to patrol the perimeter.

Archaeological investigations in 2005 and 2006, conducted roughly 70 metres southwest of the monument during construction of a modern house, uncovered fascinating evidence of medieval occupation. Among the finds were twenty pottery sherds, fourteen of which dated to the medieval period. These included examples of Leinster cooking ware and both coarse and fine Dublin-type pottery, offering tangible connections to the domestic lives of those who once lived and worked within these protective walls. The remaining sherds, post-medieval in date, hint at the site’s continued use long after its military significance had faded.