This defensive enclosure, measuring roughly 67 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, sits at a slightly lower elevation than its accompanying tower. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 documented the site as having ‘a castle, the walles of two houses with a bawne about them’, providing a valuable snapshot of how the structure appeared in the mid-17th century.

The bawn’s boundaries tell a story of both human construction and natural landscape features. On the western and southern sides, a low, broad bank approximately 8 metres wide still marks the perimeter, though it rises less than a metre above the interior ground level. The northern edge is defined by a scarp nearly 4 metres wide and just under a metre high, whilst the eastern boundary makes clever use of a quarry face, incorporating the natural rock formation into the defensive design. The tower house itself occupies a limestone outcrop in the northeast corner of the bawn, taking advantage of the elevated position for both defence and surveillance.

Today, visitors won’t find a clearly defined entrance to the bawn, and much of the interior ground shows signs of disturbance over the centuries. Despite these changes, the site remains an evocative example of the fortified homesteads that once dotted the Irish landscape, where local families combined residential tower houses with protective bawn walls to create secure compounds during turbulent times. The integration of natural features like the quarry face and limestone outcrop demonstrates the practical ingenuity of these medieval builders, who worked with the landscape rather than against it.