This defensive enclosure, which once protected a castle and its inhabitants, now forms part of a working farmyard, with its ancient limestone walls serving as boundaries for modern agricultural buildings. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 records that James, Earl of Ormond, owned these lands in 1640, noting the presence of ‘a Castle wanting repayre wth a Bawne & some thatcht cabbins’, painting a picture of a settlement already showing signs of decline in the mid-17th century.

The bawn originally formed at least a five-sided enclosure measuring approximately 61.6 metres north to south, though today only portions of the defensive walls survive above ground. Built from roughly coursed limestone rubble with walls nearly a metre thick, the structure demonstrates the substantial construction typical of these fortifications. The best-preserved section is the northern wall, stretching 44 metres and standing about 3.5 metres high, which now forms the back wall of farm outbuildings along its western end. The eastern portion of this wall features six impressive blind arcades, each about 3 metres high and 4 metres wide, which likely provided additional support for a wall-walk where defenders could patrol. Between these arches, the broken masonry suggests pyramidal corbels once projected from the wall, adding both structural support and architectural detail.

The southern and southwestern walls remain partially visible, with the south wall extending 27.2 metres and featuring an embrasure for a narrow defensive loop near its centre. Where the south wall meets the southwest wall at an obtuse angle, evidence suggests a defensive feature once projected from the corner, perhaps a small turret or flanking position. According to Ordnance Survey letters from the 19th century, the bawn once measured forty-seven paces east to west and fifty paces north to south, with walls fourteen feet high and four feet thick, and may have included a square tower at the northeast corner, though this has since vanished. Today, concrete sheds, corrugated iron roofs, and farm machinery share space with these medieval walls, creating an intriguing blend of agricultural continuity where cattle now graze in the shadow of fortifications that once protected their 17th century predecessors.